Euler Characteristic and Characters of Discrete Groups.
A group has all of its subgroups normal-by-finite if is finite for all subgroups of . The Tarski-groups provide examples of -groups ( a “large” prime) of nonlocally finite groups in which every subgroup is normal-by-finite. The aim of this paper is to prove that a -group with every subgroup normal-by-finite is locally finite. We also prove that if for every subgroup of , then contains an Abelian subgroup of index at most .
A result by Dehornoy (1992) says that every nontrivial braid admits a -definite expression, defined as a braid word in which the generator with maximal index appears with exponents that are all positive, or all negative. This is the ground result for ordering braids. In this paper, we enhance this result and prove that every braid admits a -definite word expression that, in addition, is quasi-geodesic. This establishes a longstanding conjecture. Our proof uses the dual braid monoid and a new...
We prove that the Cayley graphs of are expanders with respect to the projection of any fixed elements in generating a Zariski dense subgroup.
Let be a fixed symmetric finite subset of that generates a Zariski dense subgroup of when we consider it as an algebraic group over by restriction of scalars. We prove that the Cayley graphs of with respect to the projections of is an expander family if ranges over square-free ideals of if and is an arbitrary numberfield, or if and .