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The 'degree of k-step nilpotence' of a finite group G is the proportion of the tuples (x_1,...,x_{k+1}) in G^{k+1} for which the simple commutator [x_1,...,x_{k+1}] is equal to the identity. In this paper we study versions of this for an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Armando Martino , Matthew Tointon , Motiejus Valiunas , Enric Ventura

A word in a free group is called ``potentially positive'' if it is automorphic to an element which is written with only positive exponents. We will develop automata to analyze properties of potentially positive words. We will use these to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Emma Dinowitz , Lucy Koch-Hyde , Siobhan O'Connor , Eamonn Olive

Let F be a finitely generated field of characteristic zero and \Gamma<GL_n(F) a finitely generated subgroup. For an element g in \Gamma, let Gal(F(g)/ F) be the Galois group of the splitting field of the characteristic polynomial of g over…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Alexander Lubotzky , Lior Rosenzweig

We studied two probabilistic models of the distribution of primes in the natural number [1].The paper considers the third probabilistic model of the distribution of primes in the natural number. The author proved that the results obtained…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Victor Volfson

An $f$-subgroup is a linear recurring sequence subgroup, a multiplicative subgroup of a field whose elements can be generated (without repetition) by a linear recurrence relation, with characteristic polynomial $f$. It is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Henk D. L. Hollmann , Medet Zhanbulatuly

The Ewens sampling formula with parameter $\alpha$ is the distribution on $S_n$ which gives each $\pi\in S_n$ weight proportional to $\alpha^{C(\pi)}$, where $C(\pi)$ is the number of cycles of $\pi$. We show that, for any fixed $\alpha$,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Sean Eberhard

We prove that if $G$ is a finitely generated group and $Z$ is a uniformly recurrent subgroup of $G$ then there exists a minimal system $(X,G)$ with $Z$ as its stability system. This answers a query of Glasner and Weiss \cite{GW} in the case…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Gabor Elek

We are now witnessing a rapid growth of a new part of group theory which has become known as "statistical group theory". A typical result in this area would say something like ``a random element (or a tuple of elements) of a group G has a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandre V. Borovik , Alexei G. Myasnikov , Vladimir Shpilrain

We consider the lower-triangular matrix of generating polynomials that enumerate $k$-component forests of rooted trees on the vertex set $[n]$ according to the number of improper edges (generalizations of the Ramanujan polynomials). We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Alan D. Sokal

We consider the use of a single qutrit for random generation. This is possible because single qutrits exhibit contextuality features. We aim to optimize the entropy of the generated sequence. To do this, we do not rely on the KCBS…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 François ARNAULT , Don ANOMAN

We study a family of finitely generated residually finite groups. These groups are doubles $F_2*_H F_2$ of a rank-$2$ free group $F_2$ along an infinitely generated subgroup $H$. Varying $H$ yields uncountably many groups up to isomorphism.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Hip Kuen Chong , Daniel T. Wise

Given two subgroups $H,K$ of a finite group $G$, the probability that a pair of random elements from $H$ and $K$ commutes is denoted by $Pr(H,K)$. Suppose that a finite group $G$ admits a group of coprime automorphisms $A$ and let…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Eloisa Detomi , Robert M. Guralnick , Marta Morigi , Pavel Shumyatsky

Almost a decade ago Vaughan Jones introduced a method to produce knots from elements of the Thompson groups $F$, which was later extended to the Brown-Thompson group $F_3$. In this article we define a way to produce permutations out of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Valeriano Aiello , Stefano Iovieno

We have developed polynomial-time algorithms to generate terms of the cogrowth series for groups $\mathbb{Z}\wr \mathbb{Z},$ the lamplighter group, $(\mathbb{Z}\wr \mathbb{Z})\wr \mathbb{Z}$ and the Navas-Brin group $B.$ We have also given…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Andrew Elvey Price , Anthony J Guttmann

Stanley introduced expressions for the normalized characters of the symmetric group and stated some positivity conjectures for these expressions. Here, we give an affirmative partial answer to Stanley's positivity conjectures about the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-17 Amarpreet Rattan

We show that on an arbitrary finitely generated non virtually solvable linear group, any two independent random walks will eventually generate a free subgroup. In fact, this will hold for an exponential number of independent random walks.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Richard Aoun

Let $G$ be a finite group and $N(G)$ be the set of its conjugacy class sizes. In the 1980's Thompson conjectured that the equality $N(G)=N(S)$, where $Z(G)=1$ and $S$ is simple, implies the isomorphism $G\simeq S$. In a series of papers of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Ilya Gorshkov

The normal covering number $\gamma(G)$ of a finite, non-cyclic group $G$ is the least number of proper subgroups such that each element of $G$ lies in some conjugate of one of these subgroups. We prove that there is a positive constant $c$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-30 Daniela Bubboloni , Cheryl E. Praeger , Pablo Spiga

For a wide family of formations $\mathfrak{F}$ it is proved that the $ \mathfrak{F}$-residual of a permutation finite group can be computed in a polynomial time. Moreover, if in the previous case $\mathfrak{F}$ is hereditary, then an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Viachaslau I. Murashka

In 1984 Brown and Geoghegan proved that Thompson's group $F$ is of type $\textrm{F}_\infty$, making it the first example of an infinite dimensional torsion-free group of type $\textrm{F}_\infty$. Over the decades a different, shorter proof…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Matthew C. B. Zaremsky