On the semigroup rank of a group

DOI10.1007/S00233-018-9982-XMaRDI QIDQ2009653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mário J. J. Branco, Pedro V. Silva, Gracinda M. S. Gomes

Publication date 29 November 2019

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01495

zbMATH Keywords

abelian groupfree groupgroupsurface groupsemigroup rank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

Abstract: For an arbitrary group $G$, it is shown that either the semigroup rank $GmrkS$ equals the group rank $GmrkG$, or $GmrkS=GmrkG+1$. This is the starting point for the rest of the article, where the semigroup rank for diverse kinds of groups is analysed. The semigroup rank of relatively free groups, for any variety of groups, is computed. For a finitely generated abelian group~$G$, it is proven that $GmrkS=GmrkG+1$ if and only if $G$ is torsion-free. In general, this is not true. Partial results are obtained in the nilpotent case. It is also proven that if $M$ is a connected closed surface, then $(p{i}_1(M))mrkS=(p{i}_1(M))mrkG+1$ if and only if $M$ is orientable.

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