Generating sequences of PSL(2,p).

DOI10.1515/JGT-2014-0013MaRDI QIDQ471845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Nachman

Publication date 17 November 2014

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2073

zbMATH Keywords

irredundant generating setslengths of generating sequencesprojective linear groups over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: Julius Whiston and Jan Saxl showed that the size of an irredundant generating set of the group G=PSL(2,p) is at most four and computed the size m(G) of a maximal set for many primes. We will extend this result to a larger class of primes, with a surprising result that when p otequivpm 1mod 10, m(G)=3 except for the special case p=7. In addition, we will determine which orders of elements in irredundant generating sets of PSL(2,p) with lengths less than or equal to four are possible in most cases. We also give some remarks about the behavior of PSL(2,p) with respect to the replacement property for groups.

Review text

A generating set \(\{g_i\}\) or sequence \(\{g_i\}_{i\in I}\) for the group \(G\) is called irredundant if, after removing any \(g_j\) from the set or sequence, the new collection no longer generates \(G\). J. Whiston and J. Saxl showed that the size of an irredundant generating set of the group \(G=\mathrm{PSL}(2,p)\) is at most four and computed the size \(m(G)\) of a maximal set for many primes. The author extends this result to a larger class of primes, with the surprising result that, when \(p\not\equiv\pm 1\bmod{10}\), \(m(G)=3\) except for the special case \(p=7\). In addition, he determines which orders of elements in irredundant generating sets of \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,p)\) with lengths less than or equal to four are possible in most cases. He also gives some remarks about the behavior of \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,p)\) with respect to the replacement property for groups.

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