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Local commensurability graphs of solvable groups

Group Theory 2015-12-07 v1

Abstract

The commensurability index between two subgroups A,BA, B of a group GG is [A:AB][B:AB][A : A \cap B] [B : A\cap B]. This gives a notion of distance amongst finite-index subgroups of GG, which is encoded in the p-local commensurability graphs of GG. We show that for any metabelian group, any component of the pp-local commensurabilty graph of GG has diameter bounded above by 4. However, no universal upper bound on diameters of components exists for the class of finite solvable groups. In the appendix we give a complete classification of components for upper triangular matrix groups in GL(2,Fq)\text{GL}(2, \mathbb{F}_q).

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@article{arxiv.1512.01295,
  title  = {Local commensurability graphs of solvable groups},
  author = {Khalid Bou-Rabee and Chen Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01295},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures

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