Generic phenomena in groups: some answers and many questions.

zbMATH Open1341.20035arXiv1211.6509MaRDI QIDQ2809752FDOQ2809752

Authors: Igor Rivin 

Publication date: 30 May 2016

Abstract: We give a survey of some known results and of the many open questions in the study of generic phenomena in geometrically interesting groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6509

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zbMATH Keywords

groupslatticesmapping class groupssurfacesmodular groupgenericityZariski-densityrandom matrix productsthree-dimensional manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25)

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