Publication:3020558

DOI10.1142/S1793525311000556zbMATH Open1253.20050arXiv1102.0423MaRDI QIDQ3020558FDOQ3020558

Światosław R. Gal, Jarek Kȩdra

Publication date: 4 August 2011

Published in: Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that bi-invariant word metrics are bounded on certain Chevalley groups. As an application we provide restrictions on Hamiltonian actions of such groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0423

zbMATH Keywords

Chevalley groupsHamiltonian actionsbi-invariant metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35)

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• Bi-invariant metrics on the contactomorphism groups
• THE CANCELLATION NORM AND THE GEOMETRY OF BI-INVARIANT WORD METRICS
• On the geometry and bounded cohomology of racks and quandles
• Bounded generation for congruence subgroups of Sp4(R)
• Qualitative counting closed geodesics
• Generating groups by conjugation-invariant sets.
• Strong and uniform boundedness of groups
• Aut-invariant word norm on right-angled Artin and right-angled Coxeter groups
• Geometric structures in group theory. Abstracts from the workshop held February 27 -- March 5, 2022
• Uniform simplicity of groups with proximal action

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