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Palindromic width of wreath products, metabelian groups, and max-n solvable groups

Group Theory 2014-09-16 v3

Abstract

A group has finite palindromic width if there exists nn such that every element can be expressed as a product of nn or fewer palindromic words. We show that if GG has finite palindromic width with respect to some generating set, then so does GZrG \wr \mathbb{Z}^{r}. We also give a new, self-contained, proof that finitely generated metabelian groups have finite palindromic width. Finally, we show that solvable groups satisfying the maximal condition on normal subgroups (max-n) have finite palindromic width.

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@article{arxiv.1307.4861,
  title  = {Palindromic width of wreath products, metabelian groups, and max-n solvable groups},
  author = {T. R. Riley and A. W. Sale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4861},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

The example in Section 2.1 has been expanded. Otherwise only minor changes have been made. 15 pages. To appear in Groups Complexity Cryptology