A finitary Tits' alternative

DOI10.1007/S000130050308MaRDI QIDQ1291131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sarah Black

Publication date 28 May 2000

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000130050308

zbMATH Keywords

finite groups of uniformly bounded ranknumbers of generatorsTits alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract finite groups (20D99) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19)

Review text

For a group \(G\), let \(d(G)\) denote the minimal number of generators, and define the rank of~\(G\) to be \(\text{rk}(G)=\sup\{d(H)\mid H\) a subgroup of \(G\}\). In this note, the author proves a version of the well-known Tits alternative that applies to finite groups. Namely, given any family of finite groups of uniformly bounded rank, then either a subdirect product of these groups contains a non-cyclic free group, or each group contains a subgroup of bounded index whose derived subgroup is nilpotent of bounded class. This is based on a similar result dealing with a single finite group, where the first alternative is replaced by the existence of a finite approximation to the free group.

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