Affine sieve and expanders
Presenter
February 8, 2012
Keywords:
- thin groups
- expander graph
- group theory
- monodromy group
- sieve methods
- affine sieves
- Cayley graphs
- multiplicative number theory
- Hardy-Littlewood conjectures
- Mersenne primes
MSC:
- 43A46
- 43A05
- 43A07
- 43Axx
- 43-xx
- 20-xx
- 11N35
- 11N05
- 11N25
- 11N37
- 11Nxx
- 11-xx
Abstract
I will talk about the fundamental theorem of affine sieve (joint with Sarnak). The main black box in the proof of this result is a theorem on expanders. It gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a finitely generated subgroup of SL(n,Q) under which the Cayley graphs of such a group modulo square free integers form a family of expanders (joint with Varju).