Tel-Aviv University
School of Mathematical Sciences

Department Colloquium


Monday, October 28, 2013

Schreiber 006, 12:15



Alexander Gamburd

CUNY Graduate Center



Expander Graphs, Thin Groups, and Superstrong Approximation



Abstract:
After introducing expander graphs and briefly discussing Lubotzky-Weiss
Independence Problem  for groups and expanders I will talk about  recent
developments pertaining to establishing the expansion property for congruence
quotients of thin groups --discrete subgroups of semi-simple groups which are
Zariski dense but of infinite index. This expansion property can be viewed as a
far-reaching generalization of the strong approximation theorem and has many
applications.





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