Coverings of commutators in profinite groups

DOI10.4171/RSMUP/137-14zbMATH Open1393.20012arXiv1511.07843MaRDI QIDQ2360071FDOQ2360071

Authors: Cristina Acciarri, Pavel Shumyatsky 

Publication date: 23 June 2017

Published in: Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $w$ be a group-word. Suppose that the set of all $w$-values in a profinite group $G$ is contained in a union of countably many subgroups. It is natural to ask in what way the structure of the verbal subgroup $w(G)$ depends on the properties of the covering subgroups. The present article is a survey of recent results related to that question. In particular we survey results on finite and countable coverings of word-values (mostly commutators) by procyclic, abelian, nilpotent, and soluble subgroups, as well as subgroups with finiteness conditions. The last section of the paper is devoted to relation of the described results with Hall's problem on conciseness of group-words.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07843

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zbMATH Keywords

commutatorsprofinite groupsverbal subgroupscovering subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Commutator calculus (20F12)

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