Normality of Relative Elementary Tranvection Groups

Abstract

A. A. Suslin and V. I. Kopeiko proved that the elementary linear, symplectic, and orthogonal groups are normal in the general linear group, symplectic group, and orthogonal group respectively. They also proved relative versions of these normality results with respect to an ideal of a ring. A. Bak, R. Basu, and R. A. Rao proved that the linear, symplectic, and orthogonal transvection groups are normal in the respective automorphism groups. These results are generalizations of the normality results by Suslin and Kopeiko in the setup of modules. In this paper, we prove stronger versions of the normality results proved by Bak, Basu, and Rao, which say that the relative transvection groups are normal in the respective automorphism groups.