New uniform diameter bounds in pro-p groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/457zbMATH Open1435.20038arXiv1410.3007MaRDI QIDQ1784003FDOQ1784003

Henry Bradford

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give new upper bounds for the diameters of finite groups which do not depend on a choice of generating set. Our method exploits the commutator structure of certain profinite groups, in a fashion analogous to the Solovay-Kitaev procedure from quantum computation. We obtain polylogarithmic upper bounds for the diameters of finite quotients of: groups with an analytic structure over a pro-$p$ domain (with exponent depending on the dimension); Chevalley groups over a pro-$p$ domain (with exponent independent of the dimension) and the Nottingham group of a finite field. We also discuss some consequences of our results for random walks on groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3007

zbMATH Keywords

spectral gapdiametersanalytic pro-\(p\) groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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