Seminar series
Date
Wed, 18 Jun 2014
Time
17:00 -
17:30
Location
C6
Speaker
Henry Bradford
Organisation
Oxford
I shall outline a general method for finding upper bounds on the
diameters of finite groups, based on the Solovay-Kitaev procedure from
quantum computation. This method may be fruitfully applied to groups
arising as quotients of many familiar pro-p groups. Time permitting, I
will indicate a connection with weak spectral gap, and give some
applications.