Locally finite finitary skew linear groups

DOI10.1112/S002461150101293XMaRDI QIDQ2766410zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. A. F. Wehrfritz

Publication date 28 January 2002

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/s002461150101293x

zbMATH Keywords

finitary skew linear groupslocally finite groupsprimitive subgroupssimple groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

Let \(D\) be a division ring and \(V\) a left vector space over \(D\). The set \(\text{FGL}(V)\) of all elements \(g\) in \(\text{GL}(V)\) satisfying \(\dim_DV(g-1)<\infty\) is a subgroup of \(\text{GL}(V)\). Any subgroup of \(\text{FGL}(V)\) is called a finitary skew linear group. The main result of this paper is as follows. Let \(G\) be a locally finite, primitive subgroup of \(\text{FGL}(V)\), where \(\dim_DV\) is infinite. Then the derived subgroup \(G'\) of \(G\) is the unique minimal normal subgroup of \(G\), \(G'\) is an infinite simple group lying in every non-trivial normal subgroup of \(G\), \(C_G(G')=\langle 1\rangle\), and \(G'\leq G\leq\Aut G'\). Moreover, if \(\text{char }D=0\), then \(G\) is isomorphic to either \(\text{FSym}(\Omega)\) or \(\text{Alt}(\Omega)\) for some infinite set \(\Omega\), where \(\text{FSym}(\Omega)\) is the finitary symmetric group on the set \(\Omega\) and \(\text{Alt}(\Omega)\) is the alternating group on \(\Omega\). In both cases, \(G'\) is isomorphic to \(\text{Alt}(\Omega)\). From this theorem, the author deduces several important corollaries.

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