Commutator maps, measure preservation, and 𝑇-systems

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04575-9zbMath1182.20015arXiv0708.3664MaRDI QIDQ3394970

Aner Shalev, Shelly Garion

Publication date: 11 September 2009

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3664

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groups; finite simple groups; numbers of generators; product replacement algorithm; T-systems; Witten zeta function; commutator maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20C15: Ordinary representations and characters

20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20D06: Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type

20F12: Commutator calculus

20P05: Probabilistic methods in group theory

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