A generalization of a theorem of Rodgers and Saxl for simple groups of bounded rank

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12338MaRDI QIDQ3300087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nick Gill, Laszló Pyber, Endre Szabó

Publication date 27 July 2020

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09255

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classfinite simple groupgroup of Lie typeproducts of subsets in groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Products of subgroups of abstract finite groups (20D40) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: We prove that if $G$ is a finite simple group of Lie type and $S_1,dots,S_k$ are subsets of $G$ satisfying $pro{d}_{i=1}^k|S_i|geq|G{|}^c$ for some $c$ depending only on the rank of $G$, then there exist elements $g_1,dots,g_k$ such that $G=(S_1{)}^{g_1}cdots(S_k{)}^{g_k}$. This theorem generalizes an earlier theorem of the authors and Short. We also propose two conjectures that relate our result to one of Rodgers and Saxl pertaining to conjugacy classes in $S{L}_n(q)$, as well as to the Product Decomposition Conjecture of Liebeck, Nikolov and Shalev.

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