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We show that the hypergeometric groups associated to the pairs of the parameters $\left(0,0,\frac{1}{3}, \frac{2}{3}\right)$, $\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{4},\frac{3}{4}\right)$; and $\left(0,\frac{1}{12},…

Extending and unifying a number of well-known conjectures and open questions, we conjecture that locally elliptic (that is, every element has a bounded orbit) actions by automorphisms of finitely generated groups on finite dimensional…

Let $G$ be a finite group and $K$ a normal subset consisting of odd-order elements. The rational closure of $K$, denoted $\mathbf D_K$, is the set of elements $x \in G$ with the property that $\langle x \rangle = \langle y \rangle$ for some…

We prove that Thompson's group $T$ and, more generally, all the Higman-Thompson groups $T_n$ have quadratic Dehn function.

The braid group $B_4$ naturally acts on the rational projective plane $\mathbb{P}^2(\mathbb{Q})$, this action corresponds to the classical integral reduced Burau representation of $B_4$. The first result of this paper is a classification of…

We initiate a quantitative study of Hilbert-Schmidt stability for infinitely presented groups through the novel notion of stability radius growth. We exhibit an uncountable family of Hilbert-Schmidt stable amenable groups with arbitrarily…

This article is inspired from the work of M Krithika and P Vanchinathan on Cluster Magnification and the work of Alexander Perlis on Cluster Size. We establish the existence of polynomials for given degree and cluster size over number…

We carry out an in-depth study of Martin compactifications of affine buildings, from the viewpoint of potential theory and random walks. This work does not use any group action on buildings, although all the results are also stated within…

Let $G$ be a connected real Lie group with associated Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, and let ${\rm Aut}(G)$ be the group of (Lie) automorphisms of $G$. It is noted here that, given a super-solvable subgroup $\Gamma\subset {\rm Aut}(G)$ of…

We give the first examples of nonabelian left-orderable groups such that the conjugacy orbit equivalence relation on its space of orders has infinity orbits, yet it is smooth in the Borel sense. The examples are all nilpotent groups and we…

This paper investigates the maximal subgroups of a free projection-generated regular $*$-semigroup $PG(P)$ over a projection algebra $P$, and their relationship to the maximal subgroups of the free idempotent-generated semigroup $IG(E)$…

A (left) Engel sink of an element g of a group G is a subset containing all sufficiently long commutators [...[[x,g],g],...,g], where x ranges over G. We prove that if p is a prime and G a finite group in which, for some positive integer m,…

We initiate the study of the \emph{twisted conjugacy growth series} of a finitely generated group, the formal power series associated to the twisted conjugacy growth function. Our main result is that, for a virtually abelian group, this…

In this paper, we are concerned with the direct product $G=\pi_1(\Sigma)\times \Z^k$ for $\Sigma$ a compact orientable surface with negative Euler characteristic, and give a complete classification of its fixed subgroups of automorphisms.…

We identify natural conditions for a countable group acting on a countable tree which imply that the orbit equivalence relation of the induced action on the Gromov boundary is Borel hyperfinite. Examples of this condition include…

We deal with the problem of existence of uncountable co-Hopfian abelian groups and (absolute) Hopfian abelian groups. Firstly, we prove that there are no co-Hopfian reduced abelian groups $G$ of size $< \mathfrak{p}$ with infinite…

We prove a Freiheitssatz for one-relator products of torsion-free groups, where the relator has syllable length at most 8. This result has applications to equations over torsion-free groups: in particular a singular equation of syllable…

In this paper, we compute the second integral homology of even Artin groups using Hopf's formula. We then apply our results to the computation of cup products and Pontryagin products on even Artin groups, as well as to the second integral…

For any group $G$ and integer $k\ge 2$ the Andrews-Curtis transformations act as a permutation group, termed the Andrews-Curtis group $AC_k(G)$, on the subset $N_k(G) \subset G^k$ of all $k$-tuples that generate $G$ as a normal subgroup…

Let $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$ be a finite field of odd characteristic $p$. In this paper we give a classification, up to isomorphism, of the associative commutative $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$-algebras, starting from the connection with their bi-brace…