On the Davenport constant and group algebras

Daniel Smertnig

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On unit group of finite semisimple group algebras of non-metabelian groups up to order 72

Gaurav Mittal, Rajendra Kumar Sharma (2021)

Mathematica Bohemica

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We characterize the unit group of semisimple group algebras $𝔽_{q} G$ of some non-metabelian groups, where $F_{q}$ is a field with $q = p^{k}$ elements for $p$ prime and a positive integer $k$ . In particular, we consider all 6 non-metabelian groups of order 48, the only non-metabelian group $((C_{3} \times C_{3}) ⋊ C_{3}) ⋊ C_{2}$ of order 54, and 7 non-metabelian groups of order 72. This completes the study of unit groups of semisimple group algebras for groups upto order 72.

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). ...

The unit groups of semisimple group algebras of some non-metabelian groups of order $144$

Gaurav Mittal, Rajendra K. Sharma (2023)

Mathematica Bohemica

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We consider all the non-metabelian groups $G$ of order $144$ that have exponent either $36$ or $72$ and deduce the unit group $U (𝔽_{q} G)$ of semisimple group algebra $𝔽_{q} G$ . Here, $q$ denotes the power of a prime, i.e., $q = p^{r}$ for $p$ prime and a positive integer $r$ . Up to isomorphism, there are $6$ groups of order $144$ that have exponent either $36$ or $72$ . Additionally, we also discuss how to simply obtain the unit groups of the semisimple group algebras of those non-metabelian groups of order $144$ that are a direct product of two...

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...

Results related to Huppert’s $ρ$ - $σ$ conjecture

Xia Xu, Yong Yang (2023)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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We improve a few results related to Huppert’s $ρ$ - $σ$ conjecture. We also generalize a result about the covering number of character degrees to arbitrary finite groups.

Self-small products of abelian groups

Josef Dvořák, Jan Žemlička (2022)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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Let $A$ and $B$ be two abelian groups. The group $A$ is called $B$ -small if the covariant functor $Hom (A, -)$ commutes with all direct sums $B^{(κ)}$ and $A$ is self-small provided it is $A$ -small. The paper characterizes self-small products applying developed closure properties of the classes of relatively small groups. As a consequence, self-small products of finitely generated abelian groups are described.

A variation of Thompson's conjecture for the symmetric groups

Mahdi Abedei, Ali Iranmanesh, Farrokh Shirjian (2020)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $G$ be a finite group and let $N (G)$ denote the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$ . Thompson’s conjecture states that if $G$ is a centerless group and $S$ is a non-abelian simple group satisfying $N (G) = N (S)$ , then $G ≅ S$ . In this paper, we investigate a variation of this conjecture for some symmetric groups under a weaker assumption. In particular, it is shown that $G ≅ Sym (p + 1)$ if and only if $| G | = (p + 1)!$ and $G$ has a special conjugacy class of size $(p + 1)! / p$ , where $p > 5$ is a prime number. Consequently, if $G$ is a centerless group with $N (G) = N (Sym (p + 1))$ , then...

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.

Group algebras whose groups of normalized units have exponent 4

Victor Bovdi, Mohammed Salim (2018)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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We give a full description of locally finite $2$ -groups $G$ such that the normalized group of units of the group algebra $F G$ over a field $F$ of characteristic $2$ has exponent $4$ .

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 $L^{p} (G)$ ...

Finite groups whose all proper subgroups are $𝒞$ -groups

Pengfei Guo, Jianjun Liu (2018)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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A group $G$ is said to be a $𝒞$ -group if for every divisor $d$ of the order of $G$ , there exists a subgroup $H$ of $G$ of order $d$ such that $H$ is normal or abnormal in $G$ . We give a complete classification of those groups which are not $𝒞$ -groups but all of whose proper subgroups are $𝒞$ -groups.

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 $G$ ...

Endomorphism kernel property for finite groups

Heghine Ghumashyan, Jaroslav Guričan (2022)

Mathematica Bohemica

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A group $G$ has the endomorphism kernel property (EKP) if every congruence relation $θ$ on $G$ is the kernel of an endomorphism on $G$ . In this note we show that all finite abelian groups have EKP and we show infinite series of finite non-abelian groups which have EKP.

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...