Seminar series
Date
Wed, 16 Oct 2013
11:30
11:30
Location
Queen's College
Speaker
Henry Bradford
I shall outline a procedure for efficiently approximating arbitrary elements of certain topological groups by words in a finite set. The method is suprisingly general and is based upon the assumption that close to the identity, group elements may be easily expressible as commutators. Time permitting, I shall discuss some applications to uniform diameter bounds for finite groups and to quantum computation.