The structure of approximate groups.

DOI10.1007/s10240-012-0043-9zbMath1260.20062arXiv1110.5008OpenAlexW1964044820WikidataQ56688905 ScholiaQ56688905MaRDI QIDQ1927933

Ben Green, Terence C. Tao, Emmanuel Breuillard

Publication date: 2 January 2013

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5008

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupsfundamental groupscosetscorrespondence principlelocally compact groupslocal groupsapproximate groupsMargulis lemmanonnegatively curved manifoldsfifth Hilbert problemFreiman-Rusza theoremGromov theoremvirtual nilpotence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30)

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