Fibers of word maps and the multiplicities of non-abelian composition factors

DOI10.1142/S0218196717500539zbMATH Open1483.20030arXiv1703.00408MaRDI QIDQ4601328FDOQ4601328

Authors: Alexander Bors 

Publication date: 15 January 2018

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Call a reduced word $w$ multiplicity-bounding if and only if a finite group on which the word map of $w$ has a fiber of positive proportion $ho$ can only contain each nonabelian finite simple group $S$ as a composition factor with multiplicity bounded in terms of $ho$ and $S$. In this paper, based on recent work of Nikolov, we present methods to show that a given reduced word is multiplicity-bounding and apply them to give some nontrivial examples of multiplicity-bounding words, such as words of the form $x^e$, where $x$ is a single variable and $e$ an odd integer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00408

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zbMATH Keywords

finite groupscomposition factorsword mapscoset identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

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• GAP

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