Commutator width of Chevalley groups over rings of stable rank 1

Chevalley Groups over Commutative Rings

Finitely Generated Infinite Simple Groups of Infinite Commutator Width and Vanishing Stable Commutator Length

It is shown that there exists a finitely generated infinite simple group of infinite commutator width and infinite square width in which every conjugation-invariant norm is stably bounded, and in particular stable commutator length vanishes. Moreover, a recursive presentation of such a group with decidable word and conjugacy problems is constructed.

Chevalley Groups over Commutative Rings I. Elementary Calculations

This is the rst in a series of papers dedicated to the structure of Chevalley groups over commutative rings. The goal of this series is to systematically develop methods of calculations in Chevalley groups over rings, based on the use of their minimal modules. As an application we give new direct proofs for normality of the elementary subgroup, description of normal subgroups and similar result...

gauss decomposition for chevalley groups, revisited

in the 1960's noboru iwahori and hideya matsumoto, eiichi abe and kazuo suzuki, and michael stein discovered that chevalley groups $g=g(phi,r)$ over a semilocal ring admit remarkable gauss decomposition $g=tuu^-u$, where $t=t(phi,r)$ is a split maximal torus, whereas $u=u(phi,r)$ and $u^-=u^-(phi,r)$ are unipotent radicals of two opposite borel subgroups $b=b(phi,r)$ and $b^-=b^-(phi,r)$ contai...

Absolute Stable Rank and Quadratic Forms over Noncommutative Rings

One o f the ma in aims o f [5] is to obta in bounds for asr(A) for var ious classes of noncommuta t i ve rings A; in part icular , they show that: (i) asr(A) ~< 1 + d whenever A is a module finite a lgebra over a commuta t ive Noe ther ian ring R with d im(maxspec R) = d, and (ii) asr(A) = 1 if A is a semi-local ring (see [5], Theorems 3.1 and 2.4], respectively). The a im o f this note is to s...