Fast searching for Andrews-Curtis trivializations.
We prove that all finite simple groups of Lie type, with the exception of the Suzuki groups, can be made into a family of expanders in a uniform way. This confirms a conjecture of Babai, Kantor and Lubotzky from 1989, which has already been proved by Kassabov for sufficiently large rank. The bounded rank case is deduced here from a uniform result for which is obtained by combining results of Selberg and Drinfeld via an explicit construction of Ramanujan graphs by Lubotzky, Samuels and Vishne.
We study infinite finitely generated groups having a finite set of conjugacy classes meeting all cyclic subgroups. The results concern growth and the ascending chain condition for such groups.
The isoperimetric inequality |∂Ω| / |Ω| = constant / log |Ω| for finite subsets Ω in a finitely generated group Γ with exponential growth is optimal if Γ is polycyclic.
The space which is composed by embedding countably many circles in such a way into the plane that their radii are given by a null-sequence and that they all have a common tangent point is called “The Hawaiian Earrings”. The fundamental group of this space is known to be a subgroup of the inverse limit of the finitely generated free groups, and it is known to be not free. Within the recent move of trying to get hands on the algebraic invariants of non-tame (e.g. non-triangulable) spaces this space...