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Diameters of Cayley Graphs of Chevalley Groups Martin Kassabov and Tim Riley Eur. J. Comb., 28(3), pages 791–800, April 2007 We show that for integers k > 1 and n > 2, the diameter of the Cayley graph of SLn(Z/kZ) with respect to a standard two-element generating set, is at most a constant times n2 ln k. This answers a question of A. Lubotzky concerning SLn(Fp) and is unexpected because these Cayley graphs do not form an expander family. Our proof amounts to a quick algorithm for finding short words representing elements of SLn(Z/kZ). We generalize our results to other Chevalley groups over Z/kZ.
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