Alternating groups as products of cycle classes

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2023.113470MaRDI QIDQ6041878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harish Kishnani, Rijubrata Kundu, S. C. Mishra

Publication date 15 May 2023

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03165

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsproduct of conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: Given integers $k,lgeq2$, where either $l$ is odd or $k$ is even, let $n(k,l)$ denote the largest integer $n$ such that each element of $A_n$ is a product of $k$ many $l$-cycles. In 2008, M. Herzog, G. Kaplan and A. Lev proved that if $k,l$ both are odd, $3midl$ and $l>3$, then $n(k,l)=frac23kl$. They further conjectured that if $k$ is even and $3midl$, then $n(k,l)=frac23kl+1$. In this article, we prove this conjecture. We also prove that $n(k,3)=2k+1$ if $k$ is odd.

Review text

The authors continue the researches by \textit{M. Herzog} et al. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 115, No. 7, 1235--1245 (2008; Zbl 1172.20002)]. Let \(A_n\) denote the alternating group on \(n\) letters. The integer \(n(k,l)\) is defined as the largest integer such that every permutation in \(A_n\) is a product of \(k\) cycles of length \(l\). It is proved that if \(k \geq 2\) is any natural number, then \(n(k, 3) = 2k + 1\), and if \(k \geq 2\) and \(l > 3\) are two natural numbers such that \(k\) is even and \(3 \mid l\), then \(n(k, l) = \frac{2}{3}kl +1\).

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