Generating groups by conjugation-invariant sets.

DOI10.1142/S0219498812500715MaRDI QIDQ2909801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Tolstykh, Vladimir Vershinin, Valeriy G. Bardakov

Publication date 6 September 2012

Published in Journal of Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5844

zbMATH Keywords

Bergman propertyconjugation-invariant generating setslength functionsThompson groupswidths of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: Let S be a generating set of a group G. We say that G has FINITE WIDTH relative to S if G=(Scup S^{-1})^k for a suitable natural number k. We say that a group G is a group of FINITE C-WIDTH if G has finite width with respect to all conjugation-invariant generating sets. We give a number of examples of groups of finite C-width, and, in particular, we prove that the commutator subgroup F' of Thompson's group F is a group of finite C-width. We also study the behaviour of the class of all groups of finite C-width under some group-theoretic constructions; it is established, for instance, that this class is closed under formation of group extensions.

Review text

The authors consider a form of the Bergman property restricted to conjugation-invariant sets of a group. Namely, a group \(G\) is said to have finite \(C\)-width if, for every conjugation-invariant generating subset \(S\) of \(G\), there is an integer \(k\) such that \(S\) generates \(G\) in \(k\) steps. The authors give a number of examples, showing in particular that the derived subgroup \(F'\) of Thompson's group \(F\) has finite \(C\)-width. They show that the property is closed under formation of group extensions, and that the only free product of non-trivial groups with the property is the dihedral one. They finally consider abstract functions similar to length functions and their relations to cofinalities.

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