Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups

DOI10.1017/9781108692397.003MaRDI QIDQ6041249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace

Publication date 26 May 2023

Published in Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05949

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Simple groups (20E32) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: These notes are devoted to lattices in products of trees and related topics. They provide an introduction to the construction, by M. Burger and S. Mozes, of examples of such lattices that are simple as abstract groups. Two features of that construction are emphasized: the relevance of non-discrete locally compact groups, and the two-step strategy in the proof of simplicity, addressing separately, and with completely different methods, the existence of finite and infinite quotients. A brief history of the quest for finitely generated and finitely presented infinite simple groups is also sketched. A comparison with Margulis' proof of Kneser's simplicity conjecture is discussed, and the relevance of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups is pointed out. A final chapter is devoted to finite and infinite quotients of hyperbolic groups and their relation to the asymptotic properties of the finite simple groups. Numerous open problems are discussed along the way.

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• Indicability, residual finiteness, and simple subquotients of groups acting on trees
• Leighton's theorem : extensions, limitations and quasitrees
• A radius 1 irreducibility criterion for lattices in products of trees
• Generalized polygons and star graphs of cyclic presentations of groups
• Burger–Mozes’ simple lattices
• The order of the product of two elements in the periodic groups
• Simple groups and irreducible lattices in wreath products
• Non-colorable hierarchically hyperbolic groups
• Conjugator lengths in hierarchically hyperbolic groups
• Hierarchically hyperbolic groups and uniform exponential growth
• Coarse cubical rigidity
• Local permutation stability
• Effective flipping, skewering and rank rigidity for cubulated groups with factor systems
• Cyclic hyperbolicity in \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) cube complexes
• Uniform exponential growth for groups with proper product actions on hyperbolic spaces
• Hyperbolic generalized triangle groups, property (T) and finite simple quotients
• A cubulation with no factor system
• Groups acting on products of locally finite trees

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