The Waring problem for Lie groups and Chevalley groups

DOI10.1007/S11856-015-1246-9zbMATH Open1343.22006arXiv1404.4786OpenAlexW89883650WikidataQ115377670 ScholiaQ115377670MaRDI QIDQ891564FDOQ891564

Authors: Chun Yin Hui, Aner Shalev, Michael Larsen 

Publication date: 17 November 2015

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classical Waring problem deals with expressing every natural number as a sum of g(k) k-th powers. Similar problems were recently studied in group theory, where we aim to present group elements as short products of values of a given non-trivial word w. In this paper we study this problem for Lie groups and Chevalley groups over infinite fields. We show that for a fixed non-trivial word w and for a classical connected real compact Lie group G of sufficiently large rank we have w(G)^2=G, namely every element of G is a product of 2 values of w. We prove a similar result for non-compact Lie groups of arbitrary rank, arising from Chevalley groups over R or over a p-adic field. We also study this problem for Chevalley groups over arbitrary infinite fields, and show in particular that every element in such a group is a product of two squares.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4786

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupwordChevalley groupword map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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