Growth in Chevalley groups relatively to parabolic subgroups and some applications (Q2104855)

Summary: Given a Chevalley group \(\mathbf{G} (q)\) and a parabolic subgroup \(P \subset \mathbf{G} (q)\), we prove that for any set \(A\) there is a certain growth of \(A\) relatively to \(P\), namely, either \(A P\) or \(P A\) is much larger than \(A\). Also, we study a question about the intersection of \(A^n\) with parabolic subgroups \(P\) for large \(n\). We apply our method to obtain some results on a modular form of Zaremba's conjecture from the theory of continued fractions, and make the first step towards Hensley's conjecture about some Cantor sets with Hausdorff dimension greater than \(1{/}2\).