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

DOI10.1007/S00222-012-0383-6zbMATH Open1268.20031arXiv1102.3037OpenAlexW2046308140MaRDI QIDQ695299FDOQ695299

Dan Segal, Nikolay Nikolov

Publication date: 20 December 2012

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

Abstract: Let N be a normal subgroup of a finite group G. We prove that under certain (unavoidable) conditions the subgroup [N,G] is a product of commutators [N,y] (with prescribed values of y from a given set Y) of length bounded by a function of d(G) and |Y| only. This has several applications: 1. A new proof that G^n is closed (and hence open) in any finitely generated profinite group G. 2. A finitely generated abstract quotient of a compact Hausdorff group must be finite. 3. Let G be a topologically finitely generated compact Hausdorff group. Then G has a countably infinite abstract quotient if and only if G has an infinite virtually abelian continuous quotient.

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

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsfinitely generated groupsprofinite groupssubgroups of finite indexnumbers of generatorssubgroup structurecompact groupsverbal subgroupstopological generatorsopen subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Commutator calculus (20F12)

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