Finite and Infinite Quotients of Discrete and Indiscrete Groups

DOI10.1017/9781108692397.003zbMATH Open1514.20115arXiv1709.05949OpenAlexW2755076526MaRDI QIDQ6041249FDOQ6041249

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace

Publication date: 26 May 2023

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

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Hierarchically hyperbolic groups and uniform exponential growth
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• Coarse cubical rigidity
• Conjugator lengths in hierarchically hyperbolic groups
• Generalized polygons and star graphs of cyclic presentations of groups
• The order of the product of two elements in the periodic groups

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