The divergence of the special linear group over a function ring.

DOI10.1080/00927872.2014.918994MaRDI QIDQ3448251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrien Le Boudec

Publication date 23 October 2015

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5575

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic conescut-pointsdivergencefunction fieldsspecial linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

Abstract: We compute the divergence of the finitely generated group SLn(O_S), where S is a finite set of valuations of a function field, and O_S is the corresponding ring of S-integer points. As an application, we deduce that all its asymptotic cones are without cut-points.

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