Algebra Seminar by Jarek Kedra

All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.

All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.

09 February 2012, 16:15 - 17:15

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Bi-invariant metrics on lattices in Chevalley groups are bounded.

I will prove what is stated in the title.

The proof relies on the bounded generation property which I will explain.

The model example is, of course, SL(n,Z) for n>2. I will present many more examples and a motivation. This a joint work with S. Gal and it benefited from my discussions with Colin, Dave, Geoff and Meinolf. http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0423

Speaker: Jarek Kedra (Aberdeen)