Words with few values in finite simple groups.

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAS018MaRDI QIDQ2871303zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Kassabov, Nikolay Nikolov

Publication date 22 January 2014

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5484

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsfinite simple groupsidentitiesunimodular groupsword widthswords in groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Quasivarieties and varieties of groups (20E10) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: We construct words with small image in a given finite alternating or unimodular group. This shows that word width in these groups is unbounded in general.

Review text

Let \(G_w=\{w(g_1,\ldots,g_d)^{\pm 1}\mid g_i\in G\}\), where \(w\) is a word in the free group on \(x_1,\ldots,x_d\). In this paper the authors show that for \(n\geq 7\), \(n\neq 13\), there is a word \(w(x_1,x_2)\) such that \(\text{Alt}(n)_w\) consists of the identity and all 3-cycles, for \(n=13\) there is a word \(w(x_1,x_2,x_3)\) with the same property. They also prove a similar result for \(\text{SL}_n(q)\), \((n,q)\neq(4,2)\), and transvections instead of 3-cycles. From this it follows that for any \(k\), there exists a word \(w\) and a finite simple group \(G\), such that \(w\) is not an identity in \(G\) but \(G\neq(G_w)^k\).

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