Effective results on the Waring problem for finite simple groups.

DOI10.1353/AJM.2015.0035zbMATH Open1338.20009arXiv1302.0333OpenAlexW2963939171MaRDI QIDQ3453306FDOQ3453306

Authors: Robert Guralnick, Pham Huu Tiep 

Publication date: 20 November 2015

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be a finite quasisimple group of Lie type. We show that there are regular semisimple elements x,y in G, x of prime order, and |y| is divisible by at most two primes, such that the product of the conjugacy classes of x and y contain all non-central elements of G. In fact in all but four cases, y can be chosen to be of square-free order. Using this result, we prove an effective version of one of the main results of Larsen, Shalev and Tiep by showing that, given any positive integer m, if the order of a finite simple group S is at least f(m) for a specified function f, then every element in S is a product of two mth powers. Furthermore, the verbal width of the mth power word on any finite simple group S is at most g(m) for a specified function g. We also show that, given any two non-trivial words v, w, if G is a finite quasisimple group of large enough order, then v(G)w(G) contains all non-central elements of G.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0333

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zbMATH Keywords

Waring problemfinite quasisimple groupsfinite groups of Lie typeproducts of conjugacy classesword mapsproducts of powersregular semisimple elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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