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We study the average case complexity of the uniform membership problem for subgroups of free groups, and we show that it is orders of magnitude smaller than the worst case complexity of the best known algorithms. This applies to subgroups…

Continuing from the author's previous article 'Random walks and contracting elements I', we study random walks on (possibly asymmetric) metric spaces using the bounded geodesic image property (BGIP) of certain isometries. As an application,…

Let $m$ be a positive integer such that $p$ does not divide $m$ where $p$ is prime. In this paper we find the number of conjugacy classes of completely reducible cyclic subgroups in GL$(2, q)$ of order $m$, where $q$ is a power of $p$.

We continue the study of the retraction from an Artin group to a standard parabolic subgroup introduced by Blufstein, Charney, Paris and the second author. Using right and left retractions we obtain new results on minimal parabolic…

We outline a general procedure that builds classifying spaces for generalized Thompson groups $\Gamma$. The construction depends on a small number of choices: (1) an inverse semigroup $S$ of partial transformations that ``locally determine"…

We give examples of hyperbolic groups which contain subgroups that are of type $\mathscr{F}_{3}$ but not of type $\mathscr{F}_{4}$. These groups are obtained by Dehn filling starting from a non-uniform lattice in ${\rm PO}(8,1)$ which was…

In this note, we characterise when the kernel of a rational character of a right-anlged Artin group, also known as generalised Bestiva-Brady group, is finitely generated and finitely presented. In these cases, we exhibit a finite generating…

In this paper, we study the coarse kernel of a group action, namely the normal subgroup of elements that translate every point by a uniformly bounded amount. We give a complete algebraic characterization of this object. We specialize to…

We show that both the Brinkmann Problem (BrP) and the Brinkmann Conjugacy Problem (BrCP) are decidable for endomorphisms of the free group Fn.

We exhibit exponentially distorted subgroups in $\mathbb{Z} \wr ( \mathbb{Z} \wr \mathbb{Z} )$ and $\mathbb{Z} \wr F_2$.

We investigate representations of Coxeter groups into $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$ as geometric reflection groups which are convex cocompact in the projective space $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{R}^n)$. We characterize which Coxeter groups admit such…

We provide a brief overview of our upcoming work identifying all the thin Heckoid groups in $PSL(2,\mathbb{C})$. Here we give a complete list of the $55$ thin generalised triangle groups of slope $1/2$. This work was presented at the…

We show that if a Sylow $p$-subgroup of a finite group $G$ is nilpotent of class at most $p$, then the $p$-part of the Bogomolov multiplier of $G$ is locally controlled.

We investigate the structure of the minimal displacement set in weakly systolic complexes. We show that such set is systolic and that it embeds isometrically into the complex. As corollaries, we prove that any isometry of a weakly systolic…

We obtain restrictions on which groups can admit relatively Anosov representations into specified target Lie groups, by examining the topology of possible Bowditch boundaries and how they interact with the Anosov limit maps. For instance,…

Let $W$ be a finite reflection group, either real or complex, and $S_\ell$ a Sylow $\ell$-subgroup of $W$. We prove the existence of a semidirect product decomposition of $N_W(S_\ell)$ in terms of the unique parabolic subgroup of $W$…

We introduce a notion of "local stability in permutations" for finitely generated groups. If a group is sofic and locally stable in our sense, then it is also locally embeddable into finite groups (LEF). Our notion is weaker than the…

We study model geometries of finitely generated groups. If a finitely generated group does not contain a non-trivial finite rank free abelian commensurated subgroup, we show any model geometry is dominated by either a symmetric space of…

Consider a positive Borel measure on a locally compact group. We define a notion of uniform density for such a measure, which is based on a group invariant introduced by Leptin in 1966. We then restrict to unimodular amenable groups and to…

This research provides a characterization of centralizer-like subgroups associated with the $n$-Engel word in a direct product of groups. Specifically, properties of the set of right $n$-Engel elements inside of direct products are…