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We find the two-variables generating function for the statistic which counts the number of variations in a word bounded by $1$. Thus, we refine and extend previous results concerning staircase words, which are words in which the variation…
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The length of an element $z$ of a Lie algebra $L$ is defined as the smallest number $s$ needed to represent $z$ as a sum of $s$ brackets. The bracket width of $L$ is defined as supremum of the lengths of its elements. Given a…
Let w be a group word. It is conjectured that if w has only countably many values in a profinite group G, then the verbal subgroup w(G) is finite. In the present paper we confirm the conjecture in the cases where w is a multilinear…
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We give upper and lower bounds on the Chevalley-Bass number of a field of characteristic zero, whenever this quantity is well-defined. We also describe an algorithm which computes the Chevalley-Bass number of a field, provided its maximal…
Let $G$ be a non-elementary hyperbolic group. Let $w$ be a group word such that the set $w[G]$ of all its values in $G$ does not coincide with $G$ or 1. We show that the width of verbal subgroup $w(G)=<w[G]>$ is infinite. That is, there is…
Staircase words are words in which consecutive letters do not differ by more than $1$. We generalize this by extending the restriction to letters lying further apart from each other and obtain the corresponding generating functions, which…
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For any positive integers m and n, the word map (x,y) -> x^m y^n is almost measure preserving on large finite simple groups G.