Powers of subsets in free groups.

DOI10.1070/SM2011V202N11ABEH004203MaRDI QIDQ2880047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. R. Safin

Publication date 12 April 2012

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1820

zbMATH Keywords

noncommuting elementsrelations in free groupssubsets of free groupsvirtually Abelian subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: We prove that |A^n| > c_n |A|^{[frac{n+1}{2}]} for any finite subset A of a free group if A contains at least two noncommuting elements, where c_n>0 are constants not depending on A. Simple examples show that the order of these estimates are the best possible for each n>0.

Review text

It is proved by \textit{M.-C. Chang}, [J. Inst. Math. Jussieu 7, No. 1, 1-25 (2008; Zbl 1167.20328)], that there exist constants \(c,\delta>0\) such that \(|A^3|>c\cdot |A|^{1+\delta}\) for any subset \(A\) of the group \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\) not contained in any virtually Abelian subgroup. The latter estimation result is improved by \textit{A. A. Razborov}, [A product theorem in free groups, preprint (2007), \url{http://www.mi.ras.ru/~razborov/free_group.pdf}] in a special case: there exists a constant \(c>0\) such that \(|A\cdot A\cdot A|\geq\frac{|A|^2}{(\log|A|)^c}\) for any finite subset \(A\) of a free group not contained in any cyclic subgroup.NEWLINENEWLINE The main result of the paper under review is the following: Theorem 1. There exist constants \(c_n>0\) such that for any finite subset \(A\) of a free group not contained in any cyclic subgroup we have \(|A^n|\geq c_n\cdot |A|^{[(n+1)/2]}\) for all positive integers \(n\).

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