Some examples of invariably generated groups

DOI10.1007/S11856-021-2211-4MaRDI QIDQ6342089arXivFDO

Authors Ashot Minasyan

Publication date 4 June 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11856-021-2211-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutation groups (20Bxx) Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups (20Exx) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20Fxx)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: A group $G$ is invariably generated (IG) if there is a subset $SsubseteqG$ such that for every subset $S^{\prime }subseteqG$, obtained from $S$ by replacing each element with a conjugate, $S^{\prime }$ generates $G$. $G$ is finitely invariably generated (FIG) if, in addition, one can choose such a subset $S$ to be finite. In this note we construct a FIG group $G$ with an index $2$ subgroup $NlhdG$ such that $N$ is not IG. This shows that neither property IG nor FIG is stable under passing to subgroups of finite index, answering questions of Wiegold and Kantor, Lubotzky, Shalev. We also produce the first examples of finitely generated IG groups that are not FIG, answering a question of Cox.

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