Abstract
Suppose that \(\mathcal{C}\) is a root class of groups (i.e., a class of groups that contains non-trivial groups and is closed under taking subgroups and unrestricted wreath products), \(G\) is the free product of residually \(\mathcal{C}\) -groups \(A_{i}\) ( \(i\in\mathcal{I}\) ), and \(H\) is a subgroup of \(G\) satisfying a non-trivial identity. We prove a criterion for the \(\mathcal{C}\) -separability of \(H\) in \(G\) . It follows from this criterion that, if \(\{\mathcal{V}_{j}|j\in\mathcal{J}\}\) is a family of group varieties, each \(\mathcal{V}_{j}\) ( \(j\in\mathcal{J}\) ) is distinct from the variety of all groups, and \(\mathcal{V}=\bigcup_{j\in\mathcal{J}}\mathcal{V}_{j}\) , then one can give a description of \(\mathcal{C}\) -separable \(\mathcal{V}\) -subgroups of \(G\) provided such a description is known for every group \(A_{i}\) ( \(i\in\mathcal{I}\) ).