Book review of: T. Tao, Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type

DOI10.1365/S13291-015-0130-1MaRDI QIDQ335012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alain Valette

Publication date 2 November 2016

Published in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1365/s13291-015-0130-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Random walks on graphs (05C81) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02)

Cites work

• Affine linear sieve, expanders, and sum-product
• Approximate subgroups of linear groups.
• Discrete groups, expanding graphs and invariant measures. With an appendix by Jonathan D. Rogawski
• Expander graphs and their applications
• Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type.
• Finite simple groups as expanders
• Finite subgroups of algebraic groups.
• Growth and generation in \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})\).
• Growth in finite simple groups of Lie type
• Kazhdan's property
• Small-diameter Cayley graphs for finite simple groups
• Suzuki groups as expanders.
• Uniform expansion bounds for Cayley graphs of \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb F_p)\).

Cited in

(2)

• Book Review: Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type
• Emmanuel Breuillard and Hee Oh, Thin groups and superstrong approximation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 376 pp., 978-1-107-03685-7 (hardback), £65.

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