A variety of applications of a theorem of B. H. Neumann on groups

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Authors T. Soundararajan, K. Venkatachaliengar

Publication date 12 May 1998

Published in Acta Mathematica Vietnamica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Banach spacesdivision ringsRiemann surfacessubgroupsunions of finitely many cosetsvector spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15)

Review text

\textit{B. H. Neumann} [J. Lond. Math. Soc. 29, 236-248 (1954; Zbl 0055.01604), Publ. Math. 3, 227-242 (1954; Zbl 0057.25603)]\ proved the following theorem: Let \(G\) be a group, and \(G_1,\dots,G_r\) be subgroups of \(G\). If \(G\) is a set union of a finite number of cosets of the \(G_i\) irredundantly then \(G_1\cap\dots\cap G_r\) is of finite index in \(G\). In this note our main purpose is to point out the utility of this theorem in a variety of subjects like Banach spaces, curves, division rings, projective geometry, Riemann surfaces and vector spaces.

Recommendations

• On the Neumann-Shmel'kin theorem
• A stronger form of Neumann's BFC-theorem
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