Countable recognizability of primitive periodic finitary linear groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004196001454MaRDI QIDQ4351088zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Felix Leinen, Orazio Puglisi

Publication date 26 January 1998

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004196001454

zbMATH Keywords

commutator subgroupscountable recognitioncountable subgroupsfaithful finitary linear representationsirreducible periodic finitary linear groupsperiodic simple finitary linear groupsprimitive periodic finitary linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20)

Review text

A stage in the classification of the periodic simple finitary linear groups by J. I. Hall and others is a partial reduction to the countable case; specifically a simple group is isomorphic to a finitary linear group if and only if its countable subgroups are isomorphic to finitary linear groups. It is natural to ask, how common is it for a group, especially a periodic group, to have a faithful finitary linear representation whenever each of its countable subgroups has such a representation. The paper under review is a substantial contribution towards answering this question. Its main result is the following. Theorem A: A group \(G\) is isomorphic to a primitive periodic finitary linear group if and only if each of its countable subgroups is embeddable in a countable primitive periodic finitary linear group. The following independent result of this paper shows that Theorem A is not too removed from the simple (and much easier) case referred to above. Theorem B: The commutator subgroup of a non-linear primitive periodic finitary linear group is simple. The authors promise to discuss the countable recognition of irreducible periodic finitary linear groups in a subsequent paper.

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