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New Uniform Diameter Bounds in Pro-$p$ Groups

Henry Bradford
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We give new upper bounds for the diameters of finite groups which do not depend on a choice of generating set. Our method exploits the commutator structure of certain profinite groups, in a fashion analogous to the Solovay-Kitaev procedure from quantum computation. We obtain polylogarithmic upper bounds for the diameters of finite quotients of: groups with an analytic structure over a pro-$p$ domain (with exponent depending on the dimension); Chevalley groups over a pro-$p$ domain (with exponent independent of the dimension) and the Nottingham group of a finite field. We also discuss some consequences of our results for random walks on groups.

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Henry Bradford. 2014-10-11. New Uniform Diameter Bounds in Pro-$p$ Groups. https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3007

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