Generators and commutators in finite groups; abstract quotients of compact groups.

DOI10.1007/s00222-012-0383-6zbMath1268.20031arXiv1102.3037OpenAlexW2046308140MaRDI QIDQ695299

Nikolay Nikolov, Daniel Segal

Publication date: 20 December 2012

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3037

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupssubgroups of finite indexfinitely generated groupsnumbers of generatorsprofinite groupscompact groupssubgroup structureverbal subgroupstopological generatorsopen subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Compact groups (22C05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Commutator calculus (20F12) Limits, profinite groups (20E18)

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