On D. I. Moldavanskii's question about p-separable subgroups of a free group

Abstract

We prove that every nonabelian free group has a finitely generated isolated subgroup which is not separable in the class of nilpotent groups. This enables us to give a negative answer to the following question by D.I. Moldavanskii in the "Kourovka Notebook": Is it true that any finitely generated p'--isolated subgroup of a free group is separable in the class of finite p--groups?

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