Expansion and random walks in SL_n

Wed, 30/01
10:30
Henry Bradford -- Queen's Lecture C Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar Queen's College
I will look at some tools for proving expansion in the Cayley graphs of finite quotients of a given infinite group, with particular emphasis on Bourgain-Gamburd’s work on expansion in Zariski-dense subgroups of SL_2(Z), and speculate to what extent such expansion may be said to be “uniform”.