Commutator width in Chevalley groups.

zbMATH Open1294.20059arXiv1206.2128MaRDI QIDQ2856433FDOQ2856433

Authors: Zuhong Zhang, R. Hazrat, Alexei Stepanov, Nikolai Vavilov 

Publication date: 28 October 2013

Published in: Note di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present paper is the [slightly expanded] text of our talk at the Conference "Advances in Group Theory and Applications" at Porto Cesareo in June 2011. Our main results assert that [elementary] Chevalley groups very rarely have finite commutator width. The reason is that they have very few commutators, in fact, commutators have finite width in elementary generators. We discuss also the background, bounded elementary generation, methods of proof, relative analogues of these results, some positive results, and possible generalisations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2128

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducible root systemsChevalley groups over commutative ringselementary subgroupscommutator widthselementary generatorsbounded generationsproducts of root unipotents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Commutator calculus (20F12) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

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