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Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type

Group Theory 2014-02-10 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show that random Cayley graphs of finite simple (or semisimple) groups of Lie type of fixed rank are expanders. The proofs are based on the Bourgain-Gamburd method and on the main result of our companion paper, establishing strongly dense subgroups in simple algebraic groups.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1975,
  title  = {Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type},
  author = {Emmanuel Breuillard and Ben Green and Robert Guralnick and Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1975},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

78 pages, 2 figures. This is the final version, incorporating referee comments