On the commutator lengths of certain classes of finitely presented groups.

DOI10.1155/IJMMS/2006/74981MaRDI QIDQ884192zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. P. Campbell, Hossein Doostie

Publication date 13 June 2007

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/53527

zbMATH Keywords

commutator lengthsFibonacci numbersfinite groupsgenerating setsLucas numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Commutator calculus (20F12)

Review text

Summary: For a finite group \(G=\langle X\rangle\) (\(X\neq G\)), the least positive integer \(\text{ML}_X(G)\) is called the maximum length of \(G\) with respect to the generating set \(X\) if every element of \(G\) may be represented as a product of at most \(\text{ML}_X(G)\) elements of \(X\). The maximum length of \(G\), denoted by \(\text{ML}(G)\), is defined to be the minimum of \(\{\text{ML}_X(G)\mid G=\langle X\rangle\), \(X\neq G\), \(X\neq G-\{1_G\}\}\). The well-known commutator length of a group \(G\), denoted by \(c(G)\), satisfies the inequality \(c(G)\leq\text{ML}(G')\), where \(G'\) is the derived subgroup of \(G\). In this paper we study the properties of \(\text{ML}(G)\) and by using this inequality we give upper bounds for the commutator lengths of certain classes of finite groups. In some cases these upper bounds involve the interesting sequences of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers.

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