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Isometries between finite groups

Combinatorics 2020-07-16 v3 Group Theory Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that if HH is a subgroup of index nn of any cyclic group GG, then GG can be isometrically embedded in (Hn,dHamn)(H^n, d_{_{Ham}}^n), thus generalizing previous results of Carlet (1998) for G=Z2kG=\mathbb{Z}_{2^k} and Yildiz-\"Ozger (2012) for G=ZpkG=\mathbb{Z}_{p^k} with pp prime. Next, for any positive integer qq we define the qq-adic metric dqd_q in Zqn\mathbb{Z}_{q^n} and prove that (Zqn,dq)(\mathbb{Z}_{q^n}, d_q) is isometric to (Zqn,dRT)(\mathbb{Z}_q^n, d_{RT}) for every nn, where dRTd_{RT} is the Rosenbloom-Tsfasman metric. More generally, we then demonstrate that any pair of finite groups of the same cardinality are isometric to each other for some metrics that can be explicitly constructed. Finally, we consider a chain C\mathcal{C} of subgroups of a given group and define the chain metric dCd_{\mathcal{C}} and chain isometries between two chains. Let G,KG, K be groups with G=qn|G|=q^n, K=q|K|=q and let H<GH<G. Using chains, we prove that under certain conditions, (G,dC)(Kn,dRT)(G,d_\mathcal{C}) \simeq (K^n, d_{RT}) and (G,dC)(H[G:H],dBRT)(G,d_\mathcal{C}) \simeq (H^{[G:H]}, d_{BRT}) where dBRTd_{BRT} is the block Rosenbloom-Tsfasman metric which generalizes dRTd_{RT}.

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@article{arxiv.2001.00213,
  title  = {Isometries between finite groups},
  author = {Ricardo A. Podestá and Maximiliano G. Vides},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00213},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Some minor typos corrected. Will appear in "Discrete Mathematics"

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