Author:
Rhemtulla A. H.,Wilson J. S.
Abstract
We call a subset X of a group an elliptic set if there is an integer n such that each element of the group generated by X can be written as a product of at most n elements of X ∪ X−1. The terminology is due to Philip Hall, who investigated elliptic sets in lectures given in Cambridge in the 1960's. Hall was chiefly interested in sets X which are unions of conjugacy classes, but among other things he proved that if H, K are subgroups of a finitely generated nilpotent group then their union H ∪ K is elliptic. We shall say that a subgroup H of an arbitrary group G is elliptically embedded in G, and we write H ee G, if H ∪ K is an elliptic set for each subgroup K of G. Thus H ee G if for each subgroup K there is an integer n (depending on K) such thatwhere the product has 2n factors.
Publisher
Canadian Mathematical Society
Cited by
5 articles.
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