Purely noncommuting groups

DOI10.1007/S40879-019-00348-1MaRDI QIDQ2010401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Blum-Smith, Fedor Bogomolov

Publication date 27 November 2019

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05336

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple grouplinear representationmetabelian groupnoncommuting operatorsshared eigenvectorsupersolvable group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10)

Abstract: In this paper we define and investigate a class of groups characterized by a representation-theoretic property we call purely noncommuting or PNC. This property guarantees that the group has an action on a smooth projective variety with mild quotient singularities. It has intrinsic group-theoretic interest as well. The main results are as follows. (i) All supersolvable groups are PNC. (ii) No nonabelian finite simple groups are PNC. (iii) A metabelian group is guaranteed to be PNC if its commutator subgroup's cyclic prime-power-order factors are all distinct, but not in general. We also give a criterion guaranteeing a group is PNC if its nonabelian subgroups are all large, in a suitable sense, and investigate the PNC property for permutations.

Review text

A finite group \(G\) is called purely noncommuting (PNC) if for every \(x,y\in G\) that do not commute there exists a complex representation \(\rho\) of \(G\) such that \(\rho(x)\) and \(\rho(y)\) have no common eigenvectors. The main results in this paper show that certain groups are or are not PNC. For instance, supersolvable groups are PNC while nonabelian simple groups are not PNC. The presence of certain dihedral subgroups in simple groups is an essential idea in the proof of this later result, which relies of the classification. The authors ask if a classification-free proof can be obtained. The techniques used in the proofs are character-theoretic. It is mentioned that the concepts studied in this paper are useful in resolution of singularities.

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