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IMAGES OF WORD MAPS IN FINITE SIMPLE GROUPS
Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 56 (2014) no. 2, pp. 465-469

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In response to questions by Kassabov, Nikolov and Shalev, we show that a given subset A of a finite simple group G is the image of some word map w : G × G → G if and only if (i) A contains the identity and (ii) A is invariant under Aut(G).
DOI : 10.1017/S0017089513000396
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LUBOTZKY, ALEXANDER. IMAGES OF WORD MAPS IN FINITE SIMPLE GROUPS. Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 56 (2014) no. 2, pp. 465-469. doi: 10.1017/S0017089513000396
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