Compact groups with high commuting probability of monothetic subgroups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.02.021MaRDI QIDQ6405174arXivFDO

Authors João Luiz F. Azevedo, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 16 July 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.02.021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Compact groups (22C05)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: If $H$ is a subgroup of a compact group $G$, the probability that a random element of $H$ commutes with a random element of $G$ is denoted by $Pr(H,G)$. Let $langlegangle$ stand for the monothetic subgroup generated by an element $ginG$ and let $K$ be a subgroup of $G$. We prove that $Pr(langlexangle,G)>0$ for any $xinK$ if and only if $G$ has an open normal subgroup $T$ such that $K/C_K(T)$ is torsion. In particular, $Pr(langlexangle,G)>0$ for any $xinG$ if and only if $G$ is virtually central-by-torsion, that is, there is an open normal subgroup $T$ such that $G/Z(T)$ is torsion. We also deduce a number of corollaries of this result.

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