On groups generated by elements of prime order

DOI10.1023/A:1005123722362MaRDI QIDQ1301610zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Grunenfelder, T. Košir, M. Omladič, H. Radjavi

Publication date 6 April 2000

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005123722362

zbMATH Keywords

elements of prime orderfactorizationmatrix groupsspecial linear groupuniversal Coxeter group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Geometry of classical groups (51N30)

Review text

Let \(F\) be a field containing a primitive \(p\)th root of unity, where \(p\) is a prime number. The authors show that every element in \(SL_n(F)\) is a product of \(4\) or fewer elements of order \(p.\) They investigate which subgroups of the general linear group are generated by elements of order \(p,\) and they search for the existence of some integer \(k\) such that every element in the group can be expressed by \(k\) or fewer elements of order \(p.\) The authors pursue similar questions also for abstract groups.

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