Generators for Finite Simple Groups, with Applications to Linear Groups
A finite simple group is, of course, generated by each of its conjugacy classes of elements \(\neq 1\). The authors prove in their main Theorem 2 that for a finite simple group \(L\) of Lie type of Lie rank \(l\) certain \(8(2l+1)\) \(L\)-conjugates of any \(1 \neq g \in \text{Aut}(L)\) suffice to generate \(\langle L,g\rangle\). A similar result is shown for the series of alternating groups \(A_ n\) requiring \(\lceil(n-2)/\delta(g)\rceil + 4\) conjugates of a given element \(1 \neq g\in S_ n\) to generate \(\langle A_ n,g\rangle\): here \(\delta(g) = d(g)-t(g)\) where \(g\) moves exactly \(d(g)\) points, in \(t(g)\) distinct orbits. These theorems are proved from precise knowledge of the subgroup structure for various specific series of groups of Lie type resp. \(S_ n\), in particular maximal subgroups (including work of the authors). Four applications of these results are given. In Theorems 4 and 5 a function \(\nu(H)\) for linear groups \(H \leq GL(V)\) (extending \({\delta}(g)\) from permutations to linear transformations) gives information on dimensions of fixed spaces of elements in \(H\). This has consequences in characteristic \(p\) invariant theory. By Theorem 6 with a finite number of exceptions a finite simple group acting faithfully on a coprime module has a regular orbit on vectors. This may have consequences for fixed-point-free automorphism groups of finite soluble groups. Finally Theorem 7 about a simple group \(G\) of Lie type over an infinite, locally finite field \(F\) of characteristic \(p\) states that if \(G\leq GL(V)\) for a \(K\) vector space \(V\) with \(V = [V,G]\) has an element \(1 \neq g \in G\) with \([V,g]\) of finite dimension, then \(V\) itself has finite dimension (and \(K\) has characteristic \(p\)).
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