A Strong Tits Alternative

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Authors Emmanuel Breuillard

Publication date 8 April 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25)

Abstract: We show that for every integer $d$, there is a constant $N(d)$ such that if $K$ is any field and $F$ is a finite subset of $G{L}_d(K)$, which generates a non amenable subgroup, then $F^{N(d)}$ contains two elements, which freely generate a non abelian free subgroup. This improves the original statement of the Tits alternative. It also implies a growth gap and a co-growth gap for non-amenable linear groups, and has consequences about the girth and uniform expansion of small sets in finite subgroups of $G{L}_d(Bbb{F}_q)$ as well as other diophantine properties of non-discrete subgroups of Lie groups.

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