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   Larsen, Michael; Shalev, Aner (July 2018, Mathematische Annalen)

   We bound the size of fibers of word maps in finite and residually finite groups, and derive various applications. Our main result shows that, for any word $$1 \ne w \in F_d$$ there exists $$\e > 0$$ such that if $$\Gamma$$ is a residually finite group with infinitely many non-isomorphic non-abelian upper composition factors, then all fibers of the word map $$w:\Gamma^d \rightarrow \Gamma$$ have Hausdorff dimension at most $$d -\e$$. We conclude that profinite groups $$G := \hat\Gamma$$, $$\Gamma$$ as above, satisfy no probabilistic identity, and therefore they are \emph{randomly free}, namely, for any $$d \ge 1$$, the probability that randomly chosen elements $$g_1, \ldots , g_d \in G$$ freely generate a free subgroup (isomorphic to $$F_d$$) is $$1$$. This solves an open problem from \cite{DPSS}. Additional applications and related results are also established. For example, combining our results with recent results of Bors, we conclude that a profinite group in which the set of elements of finite odd order has positive measure has an open prosolvable subgroup. This may be regarded as a probabilistic version of the Feit-Thompson theorem. 

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   Chirvasitu, Alexandru (July 2023, Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society)

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   Glauberman, George; Guralnick, Robert; Lynd, Justin; Navarro, Gabriel (September 2020, Israel Journal of Mathematics)

   Suppose that p is an odd prime and G is a finite group having no normal non-trivial p′-subgroup. We show that if a is an automorphism of G of p-power order centralizing a Sylow p-group of G, then a is inner. 

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   COSTANZO, DAVID G.; LEWIS, MARK L.; SCHMIDT, STEFANO; TSEGAYE, EYOB; UDELL, GABE (January 2020, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society)

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   Abstract: For a group G, we define a graph Delta (G) by letting G^#=G\{1} be the set of vertices and by drawing an edge between distinct elements x,y in G^# if and only if the subgroup is cyclic. Recall that a Z-group is a group where every Sylow subgroup is cyclic. In this short note, we investigate Delta (G) for a Z-group G. 

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   Let G be an abelian group of bounded exponent and A⊆G. We show that if the collection of translates of A has VC dimension at most d, then for every ϵ>0 there is a subgroup H of G of index at most ϵ^{−d−o(1)} such that one can add or delete at most ϵ|G| elements to/from A to make it a union of H-cosets. We also establish a removal lemma with polynomial bounds, with applications to property testing, for induced bipartite patterns in a finite abelian group with bounded exponent. 

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