Equations solvable by radicals in a uniquely divisible group

Details Equations solvable by radicals in a uniquely divisible group Equations solvable by radicals in a uniquely divisible group

2010-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5239v3

Mathematics

Group Theory

18 pages, added Lemma 5.2. To appear in Bull. Lon. Math. Soc

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We study equations in groups G with unique m-th roots for each positive integer m. A word equation in two letters is an expression of the form w(X,A) = B, where w is a finite word in the alphabet {X,A}. We think of A,B in G as fixed coefficients, and X in G as the unknown. Certain word equations, such as XAXAX=B, have solutions in terms of radicals, while others such as XXAX = B do not. We obtain the first known infinite families of word equations not solvable by radicals, and conjecture a complete classification. To a word w we associate a polynomial P_w in Z[x,y] in two commuting variables, which factors whenever w is a composition of smaller words. We prove that if P_w(x^2,y^2) has an absolutely irreducible factor in Z[x,y], then the equation w(X,A)=B is not solvable in terms of radicals.

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