Strongly Bounded Groups and Infinite Powers of Finite Groups

We define a group as strongly bounded if every isometric action on a metric space has bounded orbits. This latter property is equivalent to the so-called uncountable strong cofinality, recently initiated by Bergman. Our main result is that G I is strongly bounded when G is a finite, perfect group and I is any set. This strengthens a result of Koppelberg and Tits. We also prove that ω1-existentially closed groups are strongly bounded.