On the length of the shortest non-trivial element in the derived and the lower central series.

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2015-0007MaRDI QIDQ500216zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abdelrhman Elkasapy, Andreas Thom

Publication date 1 October 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0138

zbMATH Keywords

almost laws of compact groupsderived seriesfree groupslower central seriesnilpotent residual finiteness growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Compact groups (22C05)

Abstract: We provide upper and lower bounds on the length of the shortest non-trivial element in the derived series and lower central series in the free group on two generators. The techniques are used to provide new estimates on the nilpotent residual finiteness growth and on almost laws for compact groups.

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