On the maximal number of elements pairwise generating the finite alternating group

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2024.105870MaRDI QIDQ6126166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Fumagalli, Martino Garonzi, Pietro Gheri

Publication date 9 April 2024

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11388

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupcoveringgroup generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Abstract: Let $G$ be the alternating group of degree $n$. Let $omega(G)$ be the maximal size of a subset $S$ of $G$ such that $langlex,yangle=G$ whenever $x,yinS$ and $xeqy$ and let $sigma(G)$ be the minimal size of a family of proper subgroups of $G$ whose union is $G$. We prove that, when $n$ varies in the family of composite numbers, $sigma(G)/omega(G)$ tends to $1$ as $noinfty$. Moreover, we explicitly calculate $sigma(A_n)$ for $ngeq21$ congruent to $3$ modulo $18$.

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