Quasi-Isometric Bounded Generation by Q-Rank-One Subgroups

We say that a subset X quasi-isometrically boundedly generates a finitely generated group Γ if each element γ of a finite-index subgroup of Γ can be written as a product γ = x₁x₂⋯xᵣ of a bounded number of elements of X, such that the word length of each xᵢ is bounded by a constant times the word len...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2020
Main Author: Morris, Dave Witte
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2020
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/210598
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Quasi-Isometric Bounded Generation by Q-Rank-One Subgroups. Dave Witte Morris. SIGMA 16 (2020), 012, 17 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 22E40; 20F65; 11F06
arXiv:1908.02365
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/210598
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.012
We say that a subset X quasi-isometrically boundedly generates a finitely generated group Γ if each element γ of a finite-index subgroup of Γ can be written as a product γ = x₁x₂⋯xᵣ of a bounded number of elements of X, such that the word length of each xᵢ is bounded by a constant times the word length of γ. A. Lubotzky, S. Mozes, and M.S. Raghunathan observed in 1993 that SL(n, ℤ) is quasi-isometrically boundedly generated by the elements of its natural SL(2, ℤ) subgroups. We generalize (a slightly weakened version of) this by showing that every S-arithmetic subgroup of an isotropic, almost-simple Q-group is quasi-isometrically boundedly generated by standard ℚ-rank-1 subgroups.
I thank A. Brown, D. Fisher, and S. Hurtado for suggesting this problem, and for their encouragement as I worked toward a solution. Extra thanks are due to D. Fisher for suggesting the generalization to groups with infinite center that is presented in Section 6.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Quasi-Isometric Bounded Generation by Q-Rank-One Subgroups
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description We say that a subset X quasi-isometrically boundedly generates a finitely generated group Γ if each element γ of a finite-index subgroup of Γ can be written as a product γ = x₁x₂⋯xᵣ of a bounded number of elements of X, such that the word length of each xᵢ is bounded by a constant times the word length of γ. A. Lubotzky, S. Mozes, and M.S. Raghunathan observed in 1993 that SL(n, ℤ) is quasi-isometrically boundedly generated by the elements of its natural SL(2, ℤ) subgroups. We generalize (a slightly weakened version of) this by showing that every S-arithmetic subgroup of an isotropic, almost-simple Q-group is quasi-isometrically boundedly generated by standard ℚ-rank-1 subgroups.
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