Generators and commutators in finite groups; abstract quotients of compact groups.

DOI10.1007/s00222-012-0383-6zbMath1268.20031arXiv1102.3037MaRDI QIDQ695299

Nikolay Nikolov, Daniel Segal

Publication date: 20 December 2012

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3037

zbMATH Keywords

finite groups; subgroups of finite index; finitely generated groups; numbers of generators; profinite groups; compact groups; subgroup structure; verbal subgroups; topological generators; open subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

22C05: Compact groups

20D05: Finite simple groups and their classification

20F12: Commutator calculus

20E18: Limits, profinite groups

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