Finitely annihilated groups.

DOI10.1017/S0004972714000355MaRDI QIDQ2933689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maurice Chiodo

Publication date 5 December 2014

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2706

zbMATH Keywords

coverings of groupsfinitely annihilated groupsfinitely generated groupsfinitely presented groupsperfect groupssubgroups of finite indexunions of maximal subgroupsweights of finite groupsWiegold problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Local properties of groups (20E25) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

Abstract: We say a group is finitely annihilated if it is the set-theoretic union of all its proper normal finite index subgroups. We investigate this new property, and observe that it is independent of several other well known group properties. For finitely generated groups, we show that in many cases it is equivalent to having non-cyclic abelianisation, and at the same time construct an explicit infinite family of counterexamples to this. We show for finitely presented groups that this property is neither Markov nor co-Markov. In the context of our work we show that the weight of a non-perfect finite group, or a non-perfect finitely generated solvable group, is the same as the weight of its abelianisation. We generalise a theorem of Brodie-Chamberlain-Kappe on finite coverings of groups, and finish with some generalisations and variations of our new definition.

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