Remarks concerning Lubotzky's filtration.

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2012.V8.N1.A6MaRDI QIDQ429561zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. R. Cohen, Marston D. E. Conder, J. Lopez, Stratos Prassidis

Publication date 20 June 2012

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3515

zbMATH Keywords

faithful representationssemi-direct productsLie algebrasfiltrationssplit extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Associated Lie structures for groups (20F40) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20)

Abstract: A discrete group which admits a faithful, finite dimensional, linear representation over a field $mathbbF$ of characteristic zero is called linear. This note combines the natural structure of semi-direct products with work of A. Lubotzky on the existence of linear representations to develop a technique to give sufficient conditions to show that a semi-direct product is linear. Let $G$ denote a discrete group which is a semi-direct product given by a split extension $1opioGoGammao1$. This note defines an additional type of structure for this semi-direct product called a stable extension below. The main results are as follows: 1. If $pi$ and $Gamma$ are linear, and the extension is stable, then $G$ is also linear. Restrictions concerning this extension are necessary to guarantee that $G$ is linear as seen from properties of the Formanek-Procesi "poison group". 2. If the action of $Gamma$ on $pi$ has a "Galois-like" property that it factors through the automorphisms of certain natural "towers of groups over $pi$" (to be defined below), then the associated extension is stable and thus $G$ is linear. 3. The condition of a stable extension also implies that $G$ admits filtration quotients which themselves give a natural structure of Lie algebra and which also imply earlier results of Kohno, and Falk-Randell on the Lie algebra attached to the descending central series associated to the fundamental groups of complex hyperplane complements. The methods here suggest that a possible technique for obtaining new linearity results may be to analyze automorphisms of towers of groups.

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