Event
Piotr Przytycki, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 1104, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title:Â Tits alternative in dimension 2
Abstract: A group G satisfies the Tits alternative if each of its finitely generated subgroups contains a non-abelian free group or is virtually solvable. I will sketch a proof of a theorem saying that if G acts geometrically on a simply connected nonpositively curved complex built of equilateral triangles, then it satisfies the Tits alternative. This is joint work with Damian Osajda.