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HD-Combinatorics: Aner Shalev, "Probabilistically nilpotent groups" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

HD-Combinatorics: Aner Shalev, "Probabilistically nilpotent groups"

Date: 
Mon, 11/06/201810:00-10:50
Location: 
Feldman Building, Givat Ram
In the past decades There has been considerable interest in the probability that two random elements of (finite or certain infinite)
groups commute.
I will describe new works (by myself and by others) on probabilistically nilpotent groups, namely groups in which the probability that [x_1,...,x_k]=1 is positive/bounded away from zero.
It turns out that, under some natural conditions,
these are exactly the groups which have a finite/bounded index
subgroup which is nilpotent of class < k.
The proofs have some combinatorial flavor.