Ranks of subgroups in boundedly generated groups.

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDW023MaRDI QIDQ2812008zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Shusterman

Publication date 10 June 2016

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05904

zbMATH Keywords

B. H. Neumann lemmaboundedly generated groupsprofinite groupsrank of subgroupssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: We show that an infinite residually finite boundedly generated group has an infinite chain of finite index subgroups with ranks uniformly bounded, and give (sublinear) upper bounds on the ranks of arbitrary finite index subgroups of boundedly generated groups (examples which come close to achieving these bounds are presented). This proves a strong form of a conjecture of Abert, Jaikin-Zapirain, and Nikolov which asserts that the rank gradient of infinite boundedly generated residually finite groups is $0$. Furthermore, our first result establishes a variant of a conjecture of Lubotzky on the ranks of finite index subgroups of special linear groups over the integers, and is analogous to a result of Pyber and Segal for solvable groups.

Review text

Let \(G\) be an \(m\)-boundedly generated group, and \(L\) a subgroup of finite index. If \(n\) is the exponent of \(L\) in \(G\), the author shows there is a further subgroup \(U\) of finite index in \(L\) such that rank of \(U\) is at most \(m\) and \([G:U]\leq n^m\).NEWLINENEWLINE The technique used here is based on the famous B. H. Neumann lemma; this was also employed by Nikolov and the reviewer earlier in the context of bounded generation. The author is able to deduce a surprisingly simple proof of a conjecture of Abert, Jaikin-Zapirain and Nikolov on the one hand, and also a variant of a conjecture of Lubotzky on the other.

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