Almost finite-valued -groups
Almost fixed-point-free automorphisms of prime order
Let ϕ be an automorphism of prime order p of the group G with C G(ϕ) finite of order n. We prove the following. If G is soluble of finite rank, then G has a nilpotent characteristic subgroup of finite index and class bounded in terms of p only. If G is a group with finite Hirsch number h, then G has a soluble characteristic subgroup of finite index in G with derived length bounded in terms of p and n only and a soluble characteristic subgroup of finite index in G whose index and derived length are...
Almost-Bieberbach groups with prime order holonomy
The main issue of this paper is an attempt to find a decomposition theorem for infra-nilmanifolds in the same spirit as a result of A. Vasquez for flat Riemannian manifolds. That is: we look for infra-nilmanifolds with prime order holonomy which can be obtained as a fiber space with a non-trivial nilmanifold as fiber and an infra-nilmanifold as its base. In this perspective, we prove the following algebraic result: if E is an almost-Bieberbach group with prime order holonomy,...
Amalgamated products and finitely presented groups.
Amalgams of torsion-free nilpotent groups of class three
Amenability and Ramsey theory
The purpose of this article is to connect the notion of the amenability of a discrete group with a new form of structural Ramsey theory. The Ramsey-theoretic reformulation of amenability constitutes a considerable weakening of the Følner criterion. As a by-product, it will be shown that in any non-amenable group G, there is a subset E of G such that no finitely additive probability measure on G measures all translates of E equally. The analysis of discrete groups will be generalized to the setting...
Amenability of linear-activity automaton groups
We prove that every linear-activity automaton group is amenable. The proof is based on showing that a random walk on a specially constructed degree 1 automaton group – the mother group – has asymptotic entropy 0. Our result answers an open question by Nekrashevych in the Kourovka notebook, and gives a partial answer to a question of Sidki.
Amenable group actions on infinite graphs.
Amenable groups and cellular automata
We show that the theorems of Moore and Myhill hold for cellular automata whose universes are Cayley graphs of amenable finitely generated groups. This extends the analogous result of A. Machi and F. Mignosi “Garden of Eden configurations for cellular automata on Cayley graphs of groups” for groups of sub-exponential growth.
Amenable hyperbolic groups
We give a complete characterization of the locally compact groups that are non elementary Gromov-hyperbolic and amenable. They coincide with the class of mapping tori of discrete or continuous one-parameter groups of compacting automorphisms. We moreover give a description of all Gromov-hyperbolic locally compact groups with a cocompact amenable subgroup: modulo a compact normal subgroup, these turn out to be either rank one simple Lie groups, or automorphism groups of semiregular trees acting doubly...
An Abelian Quotient of the Mapping Class Group ...g.
An acyclic extension of the braid group.
An algebraic characterization of quasi-Möbius homeomorphisms. (Une caractérisation algébrique des homéomorphismes quasi-Möbius.)
An algorithm for the word problem in extensions and the dependence of its complexity on the group representation
An alternative proof that the Fibonacci group is infinite.
An analog of the Baer-Suzuki theorem for infinite groups.
An analytic interpretation of real dimension subgroups.
An application of Ramsey's theory to partition in groups. - II
An approach to automorphisms of free groups and braids via transvections.
An autostable 2 nilpotent group with no Scott family of finitary formulas.