Heights on SL₂ and free subgroups.

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Authors Emmanuel Breuillard

Publication date 5 September 2012

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated subgroupsmatrix groups over fieldssubgroups of finite indexTits alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Review text

The classical Tits alternative asserts that a finitely generated subgroup of the matrix group \(\mathrm{GL}_d(K)\) over a field \(K\) either contains a nonabelian free group or has a solvable subgroup of finite index. The author recently obtained [Ann. Math. (2) 174, No. 2, 1057-1110 (2011; Zbl 1243.11071) and A strong Tits alternative. \url{arXiv:0804.1395}] a uniform version of this alternative. The present paper gives an exposition of the result in the special case \(d=2\).NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1225.00042].

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