Finite groups, 2-generation and the uniform domination number
Finite groups, 2-generation and the uniform domination number
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DOI:
10.1007/s11856-020-2050-8
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发表时间:
2020-07-27
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1
通讯作者:
Harper, Scott
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作者:
Burness, Timothy C.;Harper, Scott
LetGbe a finite 2-generated non-cyclic group. The spread ofGis the largest integerksuch that for any nontrivial elementsx(1), horizontal ellipsis ,x(k), there existsy is an element of Gsuch thatG= < x(i),y & rang; for alli. The more restrictive notion of uniform spread, denotedu(G), requiresyto be chosen from a fixed conjugacy class ofG, and a theorem of Breuer, Guralnick and Kantor states thatu(G) > 2 for every non-abelian finite simple group G. For any group withu(G) > 1, we define the uniform domination number gamma(u)(G) ofGto be the minimal size of a subsetSof conjugate elements such that for each nontrivialx is an element of Gthere existsy is an element of SwithG= < x,y & rang; (in this situation, we say thatSis a uniform dominating set forG). We introduced the latter notion in a recent paper, where we used probabilistic methods to determine close to best possible bounds on gamma(u)(G) for all simple groups G. In this paper we establish several new results on the spread, uniform spread and uniform domination number of finite groups and finite simple groups. For example, we make substantial progress towards a classification of the simple groupsGwith gamma(u)(G) = 2, and we study the associated probability that two randomly chosen conjugate elements form a uniform dominating set forG. We also establish new results concerning the 2-generation of soluble and symmetric groups, and we present several open problems.