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On conjugacy growth of linear groups

Group Theory 2013-10-17 v1

Abstract

We investigate the conjugacy growth of finitely generated linear groups. We show that finitely generated non-virtually-solvable subgroups of GL_d have uniform exponential conjugacy growth and in fact that the number of distinct polynomials arising as characteristic polynomials of the elements of the ball of radius n for the word metric has exponential growth rate bounded away from 0 in terms of the dimension d only.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4773,
  title  = {On conjugacy growth of linear groups},
  author = {Emmanuel Breuillard and Yves de Cornulier and Alexander Lubotzky and Chen Meiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4773},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages

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