Free subgroups of SL(n,Z), n>2, generated by transvections

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(88)90198-6MaRDI QIDQ1105041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen P. Humphries

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(88)90198-6

zbMATH Keywords

free subgroupsgenerated by transvectionssubgroups of infinite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

Review text

Let \(n>2\) be an integer and, for a prime number p, let \(\Phi_ p: SL_ n({\mathbb{Z}})\to SL_ n(p)\) denote the canonical homomorphism. The author proves that there is a proper subgroup \(H_ n\) of \(SL_ n({\mathbb{Z}})\) such that (i) \(H_ n\) is generated by n transvections, (ii) \(H_ n\) is free of degree n, (iii) \(H_ n\) is of infinite index in \(SL_ n({\mathbb{Z}})\), and (iv) \(\Phi_ p(H)=SL_ n(p)\) for every prime number p.

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