Mathematical Sciences Seminar - The width of a finite simple group
When:
—
Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Suppose you have a subset A of a finite group G. We'd like to know how many conjugates A_1,..., A_n of A you need so that G=A_1xA_2x...xA_n. This question crops up naturally in various areas of group theory, most spectacularly in the construction of families of expander graphs.
Contact name:
Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics