Powers in alternating simple groups

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Authors J. Martínez Carracedo

Publication date 13 October 2016

Published in Extracta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

alternating grouppower subgroupssimple groupword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

The author gives an elementary proof of the following theorem:NEWLINENEWLINELet \(p\) be a prime number. Every element in an alternating group \(A_n\) can be written as a product of two \(p^k\)-th powers in \(A_n\).

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