On a question of M. Newman on the number of commutators

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(88)90055-5MaRDI QIDQ1105701zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Keith Dennis, L. N. Vaserstein

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)90055-5

zbMATH Keywords

commutator groupEuclidean domainEuclidean ringsproducts of commutatorsspecial linear groupstable range condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutator calculus (20F12) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

Let F be a field of infinite transcendence degree (e.g. \({\mathbb{R}}\) or \({\mathbb{C}})\) and \(n\geq 2\) an integer. The authors show that for every integer c there is a matrix in the group SL(n,F[x]) which cannot be written as a product of c commutators. F[x] is a Euclidean domain, so for \(n\geq 3\), SL(n,F[x]) is its own commutator group. This answers negatively a question of M. Newman, who suggested the possibility that such Euclidean rings do not exist. Surprizingly the authors then show, for example, that if R is a Euclidean domain in which for some integer c every element of SL(n,R) is a product of at most c commutators, for all n large and at least 3, then in fact each such element is a product of at most 6 commutators. The authors have other positive results of this type.

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