Title : ( On the Minimum Number of Generators of the Free Products of Alternating Groups )
Authors: Ahmad Erfanian ,Access to full-text not allowed by authors
Abstract
For every nitely generated group G, assume Gn stands for direct product of n copies of G. Then the sequence fd(Gn)gn1 is called the growth sequence of G, where d(Gn) is the minimum number of generators of Gn. This paper is devoted to consider the growth sequences of G, when G = An1 An2 Ank is the free products of alternating groups An1 ;An2 ; : : : ;Ank , where ni 5 and 1 i k. In fact, we prove that d((An1 An2 Ank )t) = 2k for all 1 t h(2;An1 )h(2;An2 ) h(2;Ank ), where h(2;Ani ) is the maximum number m such that Am ni can be generated by two elements. We give several examples and two conjectures at the end.
Keywords
Minimum number of generators; Growth sequence of group; Free product; Alternating group.@article{paperid:1026356,
author = {Erfanian, Ahmad},
title = {On the Minimum Number of Generators of the Free Products of Alternating Groups},
journal = {Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics},
year = {2011},
volume = {35},
number = {3},
month = {January},
issn = {0129-2021},
pages = {401--406},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {Minimum number of generators; Growth sequence of group; Free product;
Alternating group.},
}
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