On the symmetry of images of word maps in groups

DOI10.1080/00927872.2017.1327065zbMATH Open1387.20025arXiv1701.05947OpenAlexW2582266092MaRDI QIDQ4643663FDOQ4643663

Authors: Meng-Che Ho, William Cocke 

Publication date: 28 May 2018

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Word maps in a group, an analogue of polynomials in groups, are defined by substitution of formal words. Lubotzky gave a characterization of the images of word maps in finite simple groups, and a consequence of his characterization is the existence of a group G such that the image of some word map on G is not closed under inversion. We explore sufficient conditions on a group that ensure that the image of all word maps on G are closed under inversion. We then show that there are only two groups with order less than 108 with the property that there is a word map with image not closed under inversion. We also study this behavior in nilpotent groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05947

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zbMATH Keywords

nilpotent groupsword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70)

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Uses Software

• Magma

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