On finitely generated profinite groups. I: Strong completeness and uniform bounds. II: Products in quasisimple groups.

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2007.165.171MaRDI QIDQ880883zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolay Nikolov, Dan Segal

Publication date 29 May 2007

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604400

zbMATH Keywords

products of commutatorssubgroups of finite indexGalois cohomologyhomomorphismsprofinite completionsfinite quasisimple groupscommutator subgroupfinitely generated profinite groupsgroup wordsderived groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Abstract: We prove two results. (1) There is an absolute constant $D$ such that for any finite quasisimple group $S$, given 2D arbitrary automorphisms of $S$, every element of $S$ is equal to a product of $D$ `twisted commutators' defined by the given automorphisms. (2) Given a natural number $q$, there exist $C=C(q)$ and $M=M(q)$ such that: if $S$ is a finite quasisimple group with $|S/mathrmZ(S)|>C$, $$ $(j=1,\mathrm{...},M)$ are any automorphisms of $S$, and $q_j$ $(j=1,\mathrm{...},M)$ are any divisors of $q$, then there exist inner automorphisms $alph{a}_j$ of $S$ such that $$. These results, which rely on the Classification of finite simple groups, are needed to complete the proofs of the main theorems of Part I.

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