Department of Mathematics
Title : Some magic words
| Speaker: Martin Liebeck Affiliation: Imperial College London Time: 14:00 Tuesday, 17 April, 2012 Location: 303-412 |
Abstract
| Given a word w(a,b) in the free group of rank 2, and a group G, we get a word map w from G x G to G which sends (g,h) to w(g,h). Common examples are the commutator map (g,h) goes to [g,h] and the power map g goes to g^k. I shall discuss various recent results and conjectures on word maps, with a particular emphasis on words maps on simple groups. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
