Writing certain commutators as products of cubes in free groups

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00123-8MaRDI QIDQ1861464zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mehri Akhavan-Malayeri

Publication date 9 March 2003

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00123-8

zbMATH Keywords

commutatorscube lengthsfree groupsproducts of cubesproducts of squareswreath products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Commutator calculus (20F12)

Review text

The author shows how to express \([x,y,x]\) as a product of three cubes in a free group on generators \(x,y\); and proves that \([x,y,x]^n\) is a product of two squares only if \(3\mid n\). Another observation is that every element of the commutator subgroup \(W'\) of the wreath product \(W=G\wr C_\infty\) can be written as a product of one commutator and three cubes for any group \(G\).

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