Searcharxiv⌕ Search
Home/Archive/arXiv

arXiv · 2012.09551

The Exact Factorizations of Almost Simple Groups

Cai Heng Li·Lei Wang·Binzhou Xia
View original source ↗Read source document ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

This paper presents a classification of exact factorizations of almost simple groups, which has been a long-standing open problem initiated around 1980 by the work of Wiegold-Williamson, and significantly progressed by Liebeck, Praeger and Saxl in 2010. The classification is then used to solve problems in bicrossproduct Hopf algebras and permutation groups.

Explore related subjects

math.GR

Keep this discovery

BibTeXRIS

Cai Heng Li, Lei Wang, Binzhou Xia. 2020-12-17. The Exact Factorizations of Almost Simple Groups. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09551

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related papers

arXiv2026

Reversibility and its asymptotic counting in Picard group

We investigate reversible elements in the Picard modular group $\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}[i])$. We show that reversibility coincides with strong reversibility for Kleinian groups, in particular for the Picard group. We classify reversible elements in the Picard group and characterize loxodromic reversible elements up to conjugacy. We prove that each such conjugacy class contains exactly eight special representatives. We also obtain asymptotic estimates for the number of reversible conjugacy classes with bounded trace.

math.GR↗
arXiv2026

Conjugator length in finitely generated groups

We describe all functions $\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ that can be realized, up to the standard equivalence, as conjugator length functions of finitely generated groups. Furthermore, we show that any two increasing functions $f,g\colon \mathbb N\to \mathbb N$ can be simultaneously realized as conjugator length functions of finitely generated, commensurable (in particular, quasi-isometric) groups.

math.GR↗
arXiv2026

The spectrum of conjugator length functions

A recent program tries to find which functions appear as conjugator length functions. In this note, we show that any (computable) increasing function larger than $n$ appears as $\mathrm{Cl}_G$ for some finitely generated (recursively presented) group. On the other hand, we demonstrate that either $\mathrm{Cl}_G$ must be constant or $\mathrm{Cl}_G(n)\succ n$. Combining these, we obtain a complete description of which functions appear as conjugator length functions of finitely generated groups.

math.GR↗