Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 172802

Questions about the branch of algebra that deals with groups.

14 votes
Accepted

Group with a translation invariant ultrafilter

Every nontrivial group $G$ satisfies your condition (iii). To see why, note that for any subgroup $H$ of $G$, the left action of $H$ on $G$ is free. So if $X$ is a set of representatives of the orbits …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
58 votes

How many square roots can a non-identity element in a group have?

Here is an elementary way to prove that there can´t be a finite group $G$ and non-identity $g\in G$ with $r_2(g)>\frac{5}{6}|G|$. Suppose that happens and call $S=\{x\in G; x^2=g\}$. Then of course th …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
1 vote
0 answers
182 views

Does every amenable group $G$ admit a two-sided Folner sequence?

By two-sided Følner sequence I mean a sequence $(F_N)_N$ of subsets of $G$ which is both a left-Følner and a right-Følner sequence. Context: I just came up with this question and surprisingly I haven' …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
0 votes

Can we find background noise for every Følner sequence in a countable amenable group?

I found an answer to Question 1 little after asking it, but as it was part of the material I was planning to upload to arXiv (and since the proof is long so I prefer to just cite it), I decided to wai …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
2 votes
1 answer
146 views

Can we find background noise for every Følner sequence in a countable amenable group?

Let $G$ be a countable amenable group. We consider sequences $(z_g)_{g\in G}$ of complex numbers with $|z_g|=1$ for all $g\in G$. I will say $(z_g)_{g\in G}$ is background noise for a (left-)Følner se …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
5 votes
0 answers
101 views

Non-monotileable amenable groups

This is crossposted from MSE. We say a subset $A$ of a group $G$ is a monotile for $G$ if $G$ is a disjoint union of right translates of $A$. In his article Monotileable Amenable Groups, B. Weiss give …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k
4 votes
1 answer
207 views

Nonempty intersection of cosets of finite-index subgroups

$\DeclareMathOperator\lcm{lcm}$This question is crossposted from MSE. Let $H_1,\dots,H_{n+2}$ be cosets of finite-index subgroups of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ and suppose for all $i=1,\dots,n+2$, $\bigcap_{j\neq …
Saúl RM's user avatar
  • 10.6k