Ore's conjecture on commutators in finite non-abelian simple groups

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Let GG be a finite non-abelian simple group, and let gGg\in G. A commutator is an element of the form xyx1y1xyx^{-1}y^{-1} for some x,yGx,y\in G. Ore's conjecture. Every element gGg\in G is a commutator; that is, there exist x,yGx,y\in G such that

g=xyx1y1.g=xyx^{-1}y^{-1}.

The conjecture concerns the surjectivity of the commutator map on finite non-abelian simple groups and is presented here as an example of a machine-assisted proof. Its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.

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James Davenport, Bjorn Poonen, James Maynard, Harald Helfgott, Pham Huu Tiep and Luís Cruz-Filipe, “Machine-Assisted Proofs (ICM 2018 Panel)”, arXiv:1809.08062 (2018).

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