Growth in finite simple groups of Lie type of bounded rank

Details Growth in finite simple groups of Lie type of bounded rank Growth in finite simple groups of Lie type of bounded rank

2010-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1005.1858v2

Mathematics

Group Theory

84 pages, various new results concerning non-growing subsets of linear groups were added

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We prove that if L is a finite simple group of Lie type and A a symmetric set of generators of L, then A grows i.e |AAA| > |A|^{1+epsilon} where epsilon depends only on the Lie rank of L, or AAA=L. This implies that for a family of simple groups L of Lie type of bounded rank the diameter of any Cayley graph is polylogarithmic in |L|. We obtain a similar bound for the diameters of all Cayley graphs of perfect subgroups of GL(n,p) generated by their elements of order p. We also obtain some new families of expanders. We also prove the following partial extension. Let G be a subgroup of GL(n,p), p a prime, and S a symmetric set of generators of G satisfying |S^3|\le K|S| for some K. Then G has two normal subgroups H\ge P such that H/P is soluble, P is contained in S^6 and S is covered by K^c cosets of H where c depends on n. We obtain results of similar flavour for sets generating infinite subgroups of GL(n,F), F an arbitrary field.

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