Commutator width in Chevalley groups
Rings and Algebras
2015-11-24 v1
Abstract
The present paper is the [slightly expanded] text of our talk at the Conference "Advances in Group Theory and Applications" at Porto Cesareo in June 2011. Our main results assert that [elementary] Chevalley groups very rarely have finite commutator width. The reason is that they have very few commutators, in fact, commutators have finite width in elementary generators. We discuss also the background, bounded elementary generation, methods of proof, relative analogues of these results, some positive results, and possible generalisations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.2128,
title = {Commutator width in Chevalley groups},
author = {Roozbeh Hazrat and Alexei Stepanov and Nikolai Vavilov and Zuhong Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2128},
year = {2015}
}