A refined Waring problem for finite simple groups.

DOI10.1017/FMS.2015.4MaRDI QIDQ5179063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Larsen, Pham Huu Tiep

Publication date 19 March 2015

Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4998

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsthin basesWaring problemword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Commutator calculus (20F12)

Abstract: Let v and w be nontrivial words in two free groups. We prove that, for all sufficiently large finite non-abelian simple groups G, there exist subsets C of v(G) and D of w(G) of size such that every element of G can be realized in at least one way as the product of an element of C and an element of D and the average number of such representations is O(log |G|). In particular, if w is a fixed nontrivial word and G is a sufficiently large finite non-abelian simple group, then w(G) contains a thin base of order 2. This is a non-abelian analogue of a result of Van Vu for the classical Waring problem. Further results concerning thin bases of G of order 2 are established for any finite group and for any compact Lie group G.

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