Event
Christopher Karpinski (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: A weak Tits alternative for groups acting on buildings.
Abstract: We show that groups acting properly and cocompactly by type-preserving automorphisms on buildings satisfy a weak Tits alternative: they are either virtually abelian or contain a non-abelian free subgroup. This is joint work with Damian Osajda and Piotr Przytycki.