Special Group Theory Seminar

In this talk, I will completely describe the decomposition of an oscillator representation under the tensor embedding of a product of a symplectic and orthogonal group in the case of finite fields via a correspondence proposed by Roger Howe...

Harmonic analysis studies functions on the real line by expanding them as sums of frequencies (exponentials) and analyzing how each term contributes to the whole. In many applications—such as speech recognition—only the low frequencies matter.

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The free group algebra appears often as a major tool in dealing with problems about free groups. It is also a lovely object for its own sake, featuring many analogies with the free group: for example, it satisfies an analog of the Nielsen-Schreier...

Artin groups are a family of groups generalizing braid groups, and are given by simple looking group presentations. In this talk, I will discuss profinite properties of Artin groups, such as residual finiteness, and the connection between the group...

The Poisson boundary is a measure theoretic object which classifies both the space of possible asymptotic events of a random walk and the space of bounded harmonic functions. For most identifications so far a moment condition has proved crucial. I...

A random walk on a hyperbolic group G will converge almost surely to the boundary, defining a stationary measure at infinity. When G is a cocompact fuchsian group, this boundary is the circle, and when the random walk is finitely supported it is...

The outer automorphism group of the free group Out(F_r) acts as the isometry group on the deformation space of weighted graphs, Culler-Vogtmann Outer space CV_r. The train track theory of Bestvina-Feighn-Handel bridges studying topological...