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Amitsur Symposium: Aner Shalev - "The length and depth of finite groups, algebraic groups and Lie groups" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Amitsur Symposium: Aner Shalev - "The length and depth of finite groups, algebraic groups and Lie groups"

Date: 
Tue, 26/06/201815:00-16:00
Location: 
Manchester House, Lecture Hall 2
The length of a finite group G is defined to be the maximal length of an unrefinable chain of subgroups going from G to 1. This notion was studied by many authors since the 1940s.
Recently there is growing interest also in the depth of G, which is the minimal length of such a chain. Moreover, similar notions were defined and studied for important families of infinite groups, such as connected algebraic groups and connected Lie groups.
I will describe recent works on these topics, joint with Tim Burness and Martin Liebeck. The proofs use a variety of tools, including recent results in analytic number theory.