A probabilistic Tits alternative and probabilistic identities

DOI10.2140/ANT.2016.10.1359MaRDI QIDQ313952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aner Shalev, Michael Larsen

Publication date 12 September 2016

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08841

zbMATH Keywords

probabilistic identityprofinite completionresidually finiteTits alternativevirtually solvable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a probabilistic identity of a residually finite group. We prove that a finitely generated linear group satisfies a probabilistic identity if and only if it is virtually solvable. As an application, we prove a probabilistic variant of the Tits alternative: let G be the profinite completion of a finitely generated linear group. Then either G is virtually solvable, or for any positive integer n, with probability one, n independent, uniformly distributed elements of G freely generate a free subgroup of G of rank n.

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