Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Volume 21 (2019)

Number 1

Linearity problem for non-abelian tensor products

Pages: 269 – 281

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/HHA.2019.v21.n1.a12

Authors

Valeriy G. Bardakov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia; and Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, Novosibirsk, Russia)

Andrei V. Lavrenov (Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Mikhail V. Neshchadim (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia)

Abstract

In this paper we give an example of a linear group such that its tensor square is not linear. Also, we formulate some sufficient conditions for the linearity of non-abelian tensor products $G \otimes H$ and tensor squares $G \otimes G$. Using these results we prove that tensor squares of some groups with one relation and some knot groups are linear. We prove that the Peiffer square of a finitely generated linear group is linear. At the end we construct faithful linear representations for the non-abelian tensor square of a free group and free nilpotent group.

Keywords

non-abelian tensor product, linear group, faithful linear representation

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

20E05, 20E25, 20G20

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Received 11 April 2018

Received revised 16 August 2018

Accepted 29 June 2018

Published 17 October 2018