ON THE BERGMAN PROPERTY FOR THE AUTOMORPHISM GROUPS OF RELATIVELY FREE GROUPS

DOI10.1112/S0024610706023052MaRDI QIDQ5481517zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Tolstykh

Publication date 10 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406586

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupsBergman propertyfree groups of infinite rankfree nilpotent groupssmall index propertysymmetric generating setswidths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Abstract: We say that a group $G$ has Bergman's property (the property of universality of finite width) if for every generating set $X$ of $G$ with $X=X^{-1}$ we have that $G=X^k$ for some natural number $k.$ The property is named after George Bergman who have proved recently that the infinite symmetric groups are groups of universally finite width. The first example of an infinite group with Bergman's property is due to Shelah (1980s). Lately some other examples have been found: the automorphism groups of doubly transitive chains (Droste-Holland), the automorphism group of reals as a Borel space (Droste-G"obel) and the infinite-dimensional general linear groups over division rings. In the present paper we prove that the automorphism group $Aut(N)$ of any infinitely generated free nilpotent group $N$ has Bergman's property, is generated by involutions, perfect and has confinality greater than $rank(N).$ Also, we obtain a partial answer to a question posed by Bergman establishing that the automorphism group of a free group of countably infinite rank is a group of universally finite width.

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