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Investigating transversals as generating sets for groups

Group Theory 2019-12-06 v1

Abstract

In [3] is was shown that for any group GG whose rank (i.e., minimal number of generators) is at most 3, and any finite index subgroup HGH\leq G with index [G:H]rank(G)[G:H]\geq rank(G), one can always find a left-right transversal of HH which generates GG. In this paper we extend this result to groups of rank at most 4. We also extend this to groups GG of arbitrary (finite) rank rr provided all the non-trivial divisors of [G:coreG(H)][G:core_G(H)] are at least 2r12r-1. Finally, we extend this to groups GG of arbitrary (finite) rank provided HH is malnormal in GG.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02717,
  title  = {Investigating transversals as generating sets for groups},
  author = {Maurice Chiodo and Robert Crumplin and Oscar Donlan and Paweł Piwek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02717},
  year   = {2019}
}

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36 pages. This is the first version, comments and suggestions are welcome

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