On a combinatorial problem in group theory

DOI10.1007/BF02808116MaRDI QIDQ689857zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marcel Herzog, P. Longobardi, M. Maj

Publication date 25 August 1994

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02808116

zbMATH Keywords

abelian subgroup of finite indexBFC-groupsclass \(DS\)deficient squaresFC-groupsfinite-by- abeliannearly-dihedralsubgroup generated by squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) General structure theorems for groups (20E34) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) FC-groups and their generalizations (20F24)

Review text

The class \(DS(m)\), where \(m\) is an integer greater than 1, is defined as the class of the groups in which all \(m\)-sets have deficient squares, that is to say, in which for each set \(X\) of \(m\) elements the set \(X^ 2= \{xy\mid x,y\in X\}\) has fewer than \(m^ 2\) elements. The class \(DS\) is the union of the classes \(DS(m)\) for \(m\) ranging over all the integers \(>1\). The authors determine this class \(DS\) completely: it consists of just those groups in which either the subgroup generated by all squares of elements is finite, or there is an abelian subgroup of finite index on which each group element acts by conjugation either as the identity automorphism or as the inverting automorphism [such groups are called ``nearly-dihedral by the authors]. The proof makes use of a theorem of Peter M. Neumann, with his permission here first published with his proof; it says that all groups in \(DS\) are finite-by-abelian-by-finite. A corollary of the proof of this theorem is that all FC-groups [that is groups with finite classes of conjugate elements] in \(DS\) are BFC-groups [that is groups with boundedly finite classes of conjugate elements], or equivalently finite-by-abelian. The authors' proof of their theorem requires distinguishing between FC-groups in \(DS\) and those that are not FC-groups. A final section shows by straightforward examples that the various finite quantities implicit in the authors' theorem are not bounded.

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