On groups that can be covered by conjugates of finitely many cyclic or procyclic subgroups

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Authors: Yiftach Barnea, Rachel D. Camina, Mikhail Ershov, Mark L. Lewis 

Publication date: 27 October 2022

Abstract: Given a discrete (resp. profinite) group $G$, we define $NCC(G)$ to be the smallest number of cyclic (resp. procyclic) subgroups of $G$ whose conjugates cover $G$. In this paper we determine all residually finite discrete groups with finite NCC and give an almost complete characterization of profinite groups with finite NCC. As a consequence we can show, for example, that for any $kinmathbbN$ and any prime $p>3$ the number of finite $p$-groups $P$ with more than $3$ generators and $NCC(P)=k$ is finite.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) General structure theorems for groups (20E34) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25)

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