Finite groups with large Noether number are almost cyclic

DOI10.5802/AIF.3280zbMATH Open1425.13003arXiv1706.08290OpenAlexW2974402387MaRDI QIDQ2326257FDOQ2326257

Pál Hegedűs, Attila Maróti, Laszló Pyber

Publication date: 7 October 2019

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Noether, Fleischmann and Fogarty proved that if the characteristic of the underlying field does not divide the order $|G|$ of a finite group $G$, then the polynomial invariants of $G$ are generated by polynomials of degrees at most $|G|$. Let $$ denote the largest indispensable degree in such generating sets. Cziszter and Domokos recently described finite groups $G$ with $$ at most $2$. We prove an asymptotic extension of their result. Namely, $$ is bounded for a finite group $G$ if and only if $G$ has a characteristic cyclic subgroup of bounded index. In the course of the proof we obtain the following surprising result. If $S$ is a finite simple group of Lie type or a sporadic group then we have $$. We ask a number of questions motivated by our results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08290

zbMATH Keywords

simple groups of Lie typepolynomial invariantsNoether bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Abstract finite groups (20D99) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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