A topological Tits alternative.

DOI10.4007/annals.2007.166.427zbMath1149.20039arXivmath/0403043OpenAlexW2155490599MaRDI QIDQ2477074

Emmanuel Breuillard, Tsachik Gelander

Publication date: 12 March 2008

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403043

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groups local fields Tits alternative profinite groups linear groups amenable groups Riemann foliations dense free subgroups open solvable subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Measurable group actions (22F10)

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