The Herzog-Schönheim conjecture for finitely generated groups

DOI10.1142/S0218196719500425MaRDI QIDQ5237448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabienne Chouraqui

Publication date 18 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08301

zbMATH Keywords

free groupscovering spacesHerzog-Schönheim conjectureSchreier coset automaton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a group and $H_1$,...,$H_s$ be subgroups of $G$ of indices $d_1$,...,$d_s$ respectively. In 1974, M. Herzog and J. Sch"onheim conjectured that if ${H_{i}alph{a}_i}_{i=1}^{i=s}$, $alph{a}_{i}inG$, is a coset partition of $G$, then $d_1$,..,$d_s$ cannot be distinct. We consider the Herzog-Sch"onheim conjecture for free groups of finite rank and develop a new combinatorial approach, using covering spaces. We define $Y$ the space of coset partitions of $F_n$ and show $Y$ is a metric space with interesting properties. We give some sufficient conditions on the coset partition that ensure the conjecture is satisfied and moreover has a neighborhood $U$ in $Y$ such that all the partitions in $U$ satisfy also the conjecture.

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