Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Finite Simple Groups and Fusion Systems
- Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups
- Local-Global Conjectures and Blocks of Simple Groups
- A Survey on Some Methods of Generating Finite Simple Groups
- One-Relator Groups: An Overview
- New Progress in Products of Conjugacy Classes in Finite Groups
- Aspherical Relative Presentations all Over Again
- Simple Groups, Generation and Probabilistic Methods
- Irreducible Subgroups of Simple Algebraic Groups – A Survey
- Practical Computation with Linear Groups Over Infinite Domains
- Beauville p-Groups: A Survey
- Structural Criteria in Factorised Groups Via Conjugacy Class Sizes
- Growth in Linear Algebraic Groups and Permutation Groups: Towards a Unified Perspective
- L2-Betti Numbers and their Analogues in Positive Characteristic
- On the Pronormality of Subgroups of Odd Index in Finite Simple Groups
- Vertex Stabilizers of Graphs with Primitive Automorphism Groups and a Strong Version of the Sims Conjecture
- On the Character Degrees of a Sylow p-Subgroup of a Finite Chevalley Group G(pf) Over a Bad Prime
- Patterns on Symmetric Riemann Surfaces
- Subgroups of Twisted Wreath Products
- Some Remarks on Self-Dual Codes Invariant Under Almost Simple Permutation Groups
- Test Elements: From Pro-p to Discrete Groups
- References
Growth in Linear Algebraic Groups and Permutation Groups: Towards a Unified Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Finite Simple Groups and Fusion Systems
- Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups
- Local-Global Conjectures and Blocks of Simple Groups
- A Survey on Some Methods of Generating Finite Simple Groups
- One-Relator Groups: An Overview
- New Progress in Products of Conjugacy Classes in Finite Groups
- Aspherical Relative Presentations all Over Again
- Simple Groups, Generation and Probabilistic Methods
- Irreducible Subgroups of Simple Algebraic Groups – A Survey
- Practical Computation with Linear Groups Over Infinite Domains
- Beauville p-Groups: A Survey
- Structural Criteria in Factorised Groups Via Conjugacy Class Sizes
- Growth in Linear Algebraic Groups and Permutation Groups: Towards a Unified Perspective
- L2-Betti Numbers and their Analogues in Positive Characteristic
- On the Pronormality of Subgroups of Odd Index in Finite Simple Groups
- Vertex Stabilizers of Graphs with Primitive Automorphism Groups and a Strong Version of the Sims Conjecture
- On the Character Degrees of a Sylow p-Subgroup of a Finite Chevalley Group G(pf) Over a Bad Prime
- Patterns on Symmetric Riemann Surfaces
- Subgroups of Twisted Wreath Products
- Some Remarks on Self-Dual Codes Invariant Under Almost Simple Permutation Groups
- Test Elements: From Pro-p to Discrete Groups
- References
Summary
By now, we have a product theorem in every finite simple group G of Lie type, with the strength of the bound depending only in the rank of G. Such theorems have numerous consequences: bounds on the diameters of Cayley graphs, spectral gaps, and so forth. For the alternating group Altn, we have a quasipolylogarithmic diameter bound (Helfgott-Seress 2014), but it does not rest on a product theorem. We shall revisit the proof of the bound for Altn, bringing it closer to the proof for linear algebraic groups, and making some common themes clearer. As a result, we will show how to prove a product theorem for Altn – not of full strength, as that would be impossible, but strong enough to imply the diameter bound.
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- Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham , pp. 300 - 345Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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