Decomposition of Steinberg group into involutions

DOI10.1007/BF02882946MaRDI QIDQ1387486zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hong You, Jizhu Nan

Publication date 14 December 1998

Published in Chinese Science Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02882946

zbMATH Keywords

generatorsproducts of involutionsrelationsspecial linear groupsstable Steinberg groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbols, presentations and stability of (K_2) (19C20) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Review text

The stable Steinberg group \(St\) is the direct limit of the Steinberg groups \(St_n\), it is given by generators and relations. There is an epimorphism \(\varphi\colon St\to E\) (the elementary linear group) with \(\ker\varphi=K_2\). Extending an existing result for the special linear group, the authors show that every element in \(St(F)\), where \(F\) is a field, is a product of four or fewer involutions.

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• The Steinberg component of a finite group with a split (B,N)-pair
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