CNRS Poncelet

Conference "Zeta Functions"

June 21 - 25, 2010

Moscow, Russia

RAS Poncelet

Organisers: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet), Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems), Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics)

French Russian

Growth in solvable groups

Harald Helfgott (Bristol)

Tuesday 22 June, 10:00 - 11:00

Abstract

Let G\subset GL_n(K) be a solvable group, K a finite field. Let A be a subset of G. We show under which circumstances it may happen that A fails to grow rapidly under the group operation.

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