A generalization of the diameter bound of Liebeck and Shalev for finite simple groups

DOI10.1007/S10474-021-01152-8MaRDI QIDQ2043737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Maróthi, Laszló Pyber

Publication date 3 August 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14270

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classfinite simple groupnormal set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Products of subgroups of abstract finite groups (20D40) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a non-abelian finite simple group. A famous result of Liebeck and Shalev is that there is an absolute constant $c$ such that whenever $S$ is a non-trivial normal subset in $G$ then $S^k=G$ for any integer $k$ at least $ccdot(log|G|/log|S|)$. This result is generalized by showing that there exists an absolute constant $c$ such that whenever $S_1,ldots,S_k$ are normal subsets in $G$ with $pro{d}_{i=1}^k|S_i|geq{|G|}^c$ then $S_{1}cdots{S}_k=G$.

Review text

The main result that the authors obtain is the following theorem: There exists a constant \(c\) such that if \(S_1, \ldots, S_k\) are normal subsets of a non-abelian finite simple group \(G\) satisfying \(\prod_{i = 1}^k \vert S_i\vert \geq \vert G\vert ^c\) then \(S_1\cdots S_k = G\).\par Their proof also yields the theorem: Let \(G\) be a non-abelian finite simple group. There exists a constant \(\delta\) with \(0<\delta<1\) such that if \(S_1, \ldots ,S_8\) are normal subsets in \(G\) each of size at least \(\vert G\vert ^\delta\), then \(S_1\cdots S_8 =G\) in case \(G\) is an alternating group and \(S_1S_2S_3 = G\) in case \(G\) is different from an alternating group.\par The authors point out that this theorem could be considered as an alternative approach to a conjecture of Thompson.

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