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Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type

  • Emmanuel Breuillard

    Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France

  • Ben J. Green

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Robert M. Guralnick

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

  • Terence Tao

    University of California Los Angeles, United States
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Abstract

We show that random Cayley graphs of finite simple (or semisimple) groups of Lie type of fixed rank are expanders. The proofs are based on the Bourgain-Gamburd method and on the main result of our companion paper [BGGT].

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Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben J. Green, Robert M. Guralnick, Terence Tao, Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 17 (2015), no. 6, pp. 1367–1434

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/533