On the Davenport constant and group algebras

Daniel Smertnig

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Characterization of the alternating groups by their order and one conjugacy class length

Alireza Khalili Asboei, Reza Mohammadyari (2016)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $N (G)$ be the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$ . By Thompson’s conjecture, if $L$ is a finite non-abelian simple group, $G$ is a finite group with a trivial center, and $N (G) = N (L)$ , then $L$ and $G$ are isomorphic. Recently, Chen et al. contributed interestingly to Thompson’s conjecture under a weak condition. They only used the group order and one or two special conjugacy class sizes of simple groups and characterized successfully sporadic simple groups (see Li’s PhD dissertation)....

Deformation theory and finite simple quotients of triangle groups I

Michael Larsen, Alexander Lubotzky, Claude Marion (2014)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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Let $2 \leq a \leq b \leq c \in ℕ$ with $μ = 1 / a + 1 / b + 1 / c < 1$ and let $T = T_{a, b, c} = 〈 x, y, z : x^{a} = y^{b} = z^{c} = x y z = 1 〉$ be the corresponding hyperbolic triangle group. Many papers have been dedicated to the following question: what are the finite (simple) groups which appear as quotients of $T$ ? (Classically, for $(a, b, c) = (2, 3, 7)$ and more recently also for general $(a, b, c)$ .) These papers have used either explicit constructive methods or probabilistic ones. The goal of this paper is to present a new approach based on the theory of representation varieties (via deformation theory). As a corollary we essentially...

The density of representation degrees

Martin Liebeck, Dan Segal, Aner Shalev (2012)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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For a group $G$ and a positive real number $x$ , define $d_{G} (x)$ to be the number of integers less than $x$ which are dimensions of irreducible complex representations of $G$ . We study the asymptotics of $d_{G} (x)$ for algebraic groups, arithmetic groups and finitely generated linear groups. In particular we prove an “alternative” for finitely generated linear groups $G$ in characteristic zero, showing that either there exists $α > 0$ such that $d_{G} (x) > x^{α}$ for all large $x$ , or $G$ is virtually abelian (in which case $d_{G} (x)$ is bounded). ...

Limits of relatively hyperbolic groups and Lyndon’s completions

Olga Kharlampovich, Alexei Myasnikov (2012)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We describe finitely generated groups $H$ universally equivalent (with constants from $G$ in the language) to a given torsion-free relatively hyperbolic group $G$ with free abelian parabolics. It turns out that, as in the free group case, the group $H$ embeds into the Lyndon’s completion $G^{ℤ [t]}$ of the group $G$ , or, equivalently, $H$ embeds into a group obtained from $G$ by finitely many extensions of centralizers. Conversely, every subgroup of $G^{ℤ [t]}$ containing $G$ is universally equivalent to $G$ . Since finitely...

Permutability of centre-by-finite groups

Brunetto Piochi (1989)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

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Let $G$ be a group and $m$ be an integer greater than or equal to $2$ . $G$ is said to be $m$ -permutable if every product of $m$ elements can be reordered at least in one way. We prove that, if $G$ has a centre of finite index $z$ , then $G$ is $(1+[z/2])$ -permutable. More bounds are given on the least $m$ such that $G$ is $m$ -permutable.

On the structural theory of ${II}_{1}$ factors of negatively curved groups

Ionut Chifan, Thomas Sinclair (2013)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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Ozawa showed in [21] that for any i.c.c. hyperbolic group, the associated group factor $L Γ$ is solid. Developing a new approach that combines some methods of Peterson [29], Ozawa and Popa [27, 28], and Ozawa [25], we strengthen this result by showing that $L Γ$ is strongly solid. Using our methods in cooperation with a cocycle superrigidity result of Ioana [12], we show that profinite actions of lattices in $Sp (n, 1)$ , $n \geq 2$ , are virtually $W^{*}$ -superrigid.

Obstruction sets and extensions of groups

Francesca Balestrieri (2016)

Acta Arithmetica

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Let X be a nice variety over a number field k. We characterise in pure “descent-type” terms some inequivalent obstruction sets refining the inclusion $X {(_{k})}^{é t, B r} \subset X {(_{k})}^{B r ₁}$ . In the first part, we apply ideas from the proof of $X {(_{k})}^{é t, B r} = X {(_{k})}^{_{k}}$ by Skorobogatov and Demarche to new cases, by proving a comparison theorem for obstruction sets. In the second part, we show that if $\subset \subset_{k}$ are such that $\subset E x t (,_{k})$ , then $X {(_{k})}^{} = X {(_{k})}^{}$ . This allows us to conclude, among other things, that $X {(_{k})}^{é t, B r} = X {(_{k})}^{_{k}}$ and $X {(_{k})}^{S o l, B r ₁} = X {(_{k})}^{S o l_{k}}$ .

Completely bounded lacunary sets for compact non-abelian groups

Kathryn Hare, Parasar Mohanty (2015)

Studia Mathematica

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In this paper, we introduce and study the notion of completely bounded $Λ_{p}$ sets ( $Λ_{p}^{c b}$ for short) for compact, non-abelian groups G. We characterize $Λ_{p}^{c b}$ sets in terms of completely bounded $L^{p} (G)$ multipliers. We prove that when G is an infinite product of special unitary groups of arbitrarily large dimension, there are sets consisting of representations of unbounded degree that are $Λ_{p}$ sets for all p < ∞, but are not $Λ_{p}^{c b}$ for any p ≥ 4. This is done by showing that the space of completely bounded $L^{p} (G)$ ...

On NIP and invariant measures

Ehud Hrushovski, Anand Pillay (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We study forking, Lascar strong types, Keisler measures and definable groups, under an assumption of NIP (not the independence property), continuing aspects of the paper [16]. Among key results are (i) if $p = tp (b / A)$ does not fork over $A$ then the Lascar strong type of $b$ over $A$ coincides with the compact strong type of $b$ over $A$ and any global nonforking extension of $p$ is Borel definable over $bdd (A)$ , (ii) analogous statements for Keisler measures and definable groups, including the fact that $G^{000} = G^{00}$ for $G$ ...

On sequences over a finite abelian group with zero-sum subsequences of forbidden lengths

Weidong Gao, Yuanlin Li, Pingping Zhao, Jujuan Zhuang (2016)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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Let G be an additive finite abelian group. For every positive integer ℓ, let $d i s c_{ℓ} (G)$ be the smallest positive integer t such that each sequence S over G of length |S| ≥ t has a nonempty zero-sum subsequence of length not equal to ℓ. In this paper, we determine $d i s c_{ℓ} (G)$ for certain finite groups, including cyclic groups, the groups $G = C ₂ \oplus C_{2 m}$ and elementary abelian 2-groups. Following Girard, we define disc(G) as the smallest positive integer t such that every sequence S over G with |S| ≥ t has nonempty zero-sum...

Products of conjugacy classes in finite unitary groups $G U (3, q^{2})$ and $S U (3, q^{2})$

S.Yu. Orevkov (2013)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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For the groups $G U (3)$ , $S U (3)$ , $G L (3)$ , $S U (3)$ over a finite field we solve the class product problem, i.e., we give a complete list of $m$ -tuples of conjugacy classes whose product does not contain the identity matrix.

The generalized Hodge and Bloch conjectures are equivalent for general complete intersections

Claire Voisin (2013)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We prove that Bloch’s conjecture is true for surfaces with $p_{g} = 0$ obtained as $0$ -sets $X_{σ}$ of a section $σ$ of a very ample vector bundle on a variety $X$ with “trivial” Chow groups. We get a similar result in presence of a finite group action, showing that if a projector of the group acts as $0$ on holomorphic $2$ -forms of $X_{σ}$ , then it acts as $0$ on $0$ -cycles of degree $0$ of $X_{σ}$ . In higher dimension, we also prove a similar but conditional result showing that the generalized Hodge conjecture for general $X_{σ}$ ...

On a translation property of positive definite functions

Lars Omlor, Michael Leinert (2010)

Banach Center Publications

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If G is a locally compact group with a compact invariant neighbourhood of the identity e, the following property (*) holds: For every continuous positive definite function h≥ 0 with compact support there is a constant $C_{h} > 0$ such that $\int L_{x} h \cdot g \leq C_{h} \int h g$ for every continuous positive definite g≥0, where $L_{x}$ is left translation by x. In [L], property (*) was stated, but the above inequality was proved for special h only. That “for one h” implies “for all h” seemed obvious, but turned out not to be obvious at...

Product decompositions of quasirandom groups and a Jordan type theorem

Nikolay Nikolov, László Pyber (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We first note that a result of Gowers on product-free sets in groups has an unexpected consequence: If $k$ is the minimal degree of a representation of the finite group $G$ , then for every subset $B$ of $G$ with $| B | > | G | / k^{1 / 3}$ we have $B^{3} = G$ . We use this to obtain improved versions of recent deep theorems of Helfgott and of Shalev concerning product decompositions of finite simple groups, with much simpler proofs. On the other hand, we prove a version of Jordan’s theorem which implies that if $k \geq 2$ , then $G$ has a...

The Roquette category of finite $p$ -groups

Serge Bouc (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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Let $p$ be a prime number. This paper introduces the Roquette category $ℛ_{p}$ of finite $p$ -groups, which is an additive tensor category containing all finite $p$ -groups among its objects. In $ℛ_{p}$ , every finite $p$ -group $P$ admits a canonical direct summand $\partial P$ , called the edge of $P$ . Moreover $P$ splits uniquely as a direct sum of edges of Roquette $p$ -groups, and the tensor structure of $ℛ_{p}$ can be described in terms of such edges. The main motivation for considering this category is that the additive functors...

A note on normal generation and generation of groups

Andreas Thom (2015)

Communications in Mathematics

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In this note we study sets of normal generators of finitely presented residually $p$ -finite groups. We show that if an infinite, finitely presented, residually $p$ -finite group $G$ is normally generated by $g_{1}, \dots, g_{k}$ with order $n_{1}, \dots, n_{k} \in {1, 2, \dots} \cup {\infty}$ , then $β_{1}^{(2)} (G) \leq k - 1 - \sum_{i = 1}^{k} \frac{1}{n_{i}},$ where $β_{1}^{(2)} (G)$ denotes the first $ℓ^{2}$ -Betti number of $G$ . We also show that any $k$ -generated group with $β_{1}^{(2)} (G) \geq k - 1 - ε$ must have girth greater than or equal $1 / ε$ .

Coxeter group actions on the complement of hyperplanes and special involutions

Giovanni Felder, A. Veselov (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We consider both standard and twisted actions of a (real) Coxeter group $G$ on the complement $ℳ_{G}$ to the complexified reflection hyperplanes by combining the reflections with complex conjugation. We introduce a natural geometric class of special involutions in $G$ and give explicit formulae which describe both actions on the total cohomology $H^{*} (ℳ_{G}, 𝒞)$ in terms of these involutions. As a corollary we prove that the corresponding twisted representation is regular only for the symmetric group $S_{n}$ , the...

A note on infinite $a S$ -groups

Reza Nikandish, Babak Miraftab (2015)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $G$ be a group. If every nontrivial subgroup of $G$ has a proper supplement, then $G$ is called an $a S$ -group. We study some properties of $a S$ -groups. For instance, it is shown that a nilpotent group $G$ is an $a S$ -group if and only if $G$ is a subdirect product of cyclic groups of prime orders. We prove that if $G$ is an $a S$ -group which satisfies the descending chain condition on subgroups, then $G$ is finite. Among other results, we characterize all abelian groups for which every nontrivial quotient group...