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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2008, Article ID 281734, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2008/281734 Research Article Commutator Length of Finitely Generated Linear Groups Mahboubeh Alizadeh Sanati Department of Sciences, University of Golestan, P.O. Box 49165-386 Gorgan, Golestan, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Mahboubeh Alizadeh Sanati, malizadeh@gau.ac.ir Received 22 January 2008; Accepted 22 June 2008 Recommended by Nils-Peter Skoruppa The commutator length “cl G” of a group G is the least natural number c such that every element of the derived subgroup of G is a product of c commutators. We give an upper bound for clG when G is a d-generator nilpotent-by-abelian-by-finite group. Then, we give an upper bound for the commutator length of a soluble-by-finite linear group over C that depends only on d and the 3 2 degree of linearity. For such a group G, we prove that cl G is less than kk 1/2 12d od , where k is the minimum number of generators of upper triangular subgroup of G and od2 is a quadratic polynomial in d. Finally we show that if G is a soluble-by-finite group of Pruffer rank r ¨ 3 2 2 then clG ≤ r r 1/2 12r or , where or is a quadratic polynomial in r . Copyright q 2008 Mahboubeh Alizadeh Sanati. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introd