Products of squares in finite simple groups

Martin W. Liebeck; E. A. O'brien; Aner Shalev; Pham Huu Tiep

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10878-5

Products of squares in finite simple groups

Martin W. Liebeck, E. A. O'brien, Aner Shalev, Pham Huu Tiep

Einstein Institute of Mathematics

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The Ore conjecture, proved by the authors, states that every element of every finite non-abelian simple group is a commutator. In this paper we use similar methods to prove that every element of every finite simple group is a product of two squares. This can be viewed as a non-commutative analogue of Lagrange's four squares theorem. Results for higher powers are also obtained.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-33
Number of pages	13
Journal	Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Volume	140
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10878-5
State	Published - 2012

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