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Extensive amenability and a Tits alternative for topological full groups

This dissertation investigates the amenability of topological full groups using a property of group actions called extensive amenability. Extensive amenability is a core concept of several amenability results for groups of dynamical origin. We study its pr ...

EPFL2019

Finite metacyclic groups as active sums of cyclic subgroups

Nadia Romero Romero

The notion of active sum provides an analogue for groups of what the direct sum is for abelian groups. One natural question then is which groups are the active sum of a family of cyclic subgroups. Many groups have been found to give a positive answer to th ...

Elsevier2014

Infinite Presentability Of Groups And Condensation

Luc Guyot

We describe various classes of infinitely presented groups that are condensation points in the space of marked groups. A well-known class of such groups consists of finitely generated groups admitting an infinite minimal presentation. We introduce here a l ...

Cambridge University Press2014

A lattice in more than two Kac–Moody groups is arithmetic

Nicolas Monod

Let Gamma be an irreducible lattice in a product of n infinite irreducible complete Kac–Moody groups of simply laced type over finite fields. We show that if n>2, then each Kac–Moody groups is in fact a simple algebraic group over a local field and Gamma i ...

2012

Endotrivial modules for p-solvable groups

Jacques Thévenaz, Nadia Mazza

We determine the torsion subgroup of the group of endotrivial modules for a finite solvable group in characteristic p. We also prove that our result would hold for p-solvable groups, provided a conjecture can be proved about the case of p-nilpotent groups. ...

2011

Counterexamples to a fiber theorem

David Bornand

We exhibit a counterexample to a fiber theorem stated by F. Fumagalli [J. Algebra 283 (2) (2005), 639-654] and show how it affects the rest of Fumagalli's paper. As a consequence, whether the poset A_p(G) is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres for an ...

2009

Non-unitarisable representations and random forests

Nicolas Monod

We establish a connection between Dixmier's unitarisability problem and the expected degree of random forests on a group. As a consequence, a residually finite group is non-unitarisable if its first L2-Betti number is non-zero or if it is finitely generate ...

Oxford University Press2009

Elementary abelian subgroups in p-groups of class 2

David Bornand

All the results in this work concern (finite) p-groups. Chapter 1 is concerned with classifications of some classes of p-groups of class 2 and there are no particularly new results in this chapter, which serves more as an introductory chapter. The "geometr ...

EPFL2009

Horocyclic products of trees

Let T-1, ... , T-d be homogeneous trees with degrees q(1) + 1, ... , q(d) + 1 >= 3; respectively. For each tree, let h : Tj -> Z be the Busemann function with respect to a fixed boundary point ( end). Its level sets are the horocycles. The horocyclic produ ...

2008

On Haagerup and Kazhdan properties

In the first chapter, we characterize p-adic linear algebraic groups with the Haagerup Property. We also characterize connected Lie groups having the Haagerup Property viewed as discrete groups, and we provide an example of a finitely presented group not h ...

EPFL2006

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