Sieve methods in group theory. I: Powers in linear groups.

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-2012-00736-XzbMATH Open1283.20075arXiv1107.3666MaRDI QIDQ5326484FDOQ5326484

Authors: Alexander Lubotzky, Chen Meiri 

Publication date: 6 August 2013

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A general sieve method for groups is formulated. It enables one to "measure" subsets of a finitely generated group. As an application we show that if $Gamma$ is a finitely generated non virtually-solvable linear group of characteristic zero then the set of proper powers in $Gamma$ is exponentially small. This is a far reaching strengthening of the main result of cite{HKLS}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3666

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupslinear groupsfinite groups of Lie typeproper powerssievesproperty \(\Gamma\)exponentially small subsets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20)

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