Nonlinearity of matrix groups.

DOI10.1142/S1793525309000138MaRDI QIDQ3649493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Kassabov, Mark Sapir

Publication date 4 December 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3153

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic varietiesfree ringslinear groupslinear ringsSteinberg groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35)

Abstract: The aim of this note is to answer a question by Guoliang Yu of whether the group $E{L}_3(Z<x,y>)$, where $Z<x,y>$ is the free (non-commutative) ring, has any faithful linear representations over a field. We prove, in particular, that for every (unitary associative) ring $R$, the group $E{L}_3(R)$ has a faithful finite dimensional complex representation if and only if $R$ has a finite index ideal that has a faithful finite dimensional complex representation.

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