Geometry and arithmetic of verbal dynamical systems on simple groups (with an appendix by Nathan Jones)

DOI10.4171/GGD/98MaRDI QIDQ531902zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tatiana Bandman, Fritz Grunewald, Boris Kunyavskiĭ

Publication date 21 April 2011

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0369

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemelliptic curveperiodic pointsolvable grouptrace mapword map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Number theory (11-XX) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Elliptic curves (14H52) Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Dynamical systems over finite ground fields (37P25)

Abstract: We study dynamical systems arising from word maps on simple groups. We develop a geometric method based on the classical trace map for investigating periodic points of such systems. These results lead to a new approach to the search of Engel-like sequences of words in two variables which characterize finite solvable groups. They also give rise to some new phenomena and concepts in the arithmetic of dynamical systems.

Review text

Summary: We study dynamical systems arising from word maps on simple groups. We develop a geometric method based on the classical trace map for investigating periodic points of such systems. These results lead to a new approach to the search of Engel-like sequences of words in two variables which characterize finite solvable groups. They also give rise to some new phenomena and concepts in the arithmetic of dynamical systems.

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• Criteria for equidistribution of solutions of word equations on \(\mathrm{SL}(2)\).
• Equations in simple matrix groups: algebra, geometry, arithmetic, dynamics.
• Characterization of solvable groups and solvable radical.
• Primes, elliptic curves and cyclic groups
• Suites de $G_{q}$-orbite finie.
• Surjectivity of certain word maps on \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb {C})\) and \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb {C})\)
• On the surjectivity of certain word maps on SU(2)
• Algorithmic decidability of Engel's property for automaton groups
• Iterated identities and iterational depth of groups

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