Free subgroups of special linear groups

Abstract: We present a proof of the following claim. Suppose that

n

is an integer such that

n > 1

and that

k

is any field. Suppose that

g

is an element of

m a t h r m S L (n, k)

of infinite order. Then the set

is a free group of rank two

is a Zariski dense subset of

where

is an algebraic closure of

k

.

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