Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green, Robert Guralnick, Terence Tao
Published 2010-10-20, updated 2011-03-24Version 3
We show that (with one possible exception) there exist strongly dense free subgroups in any semisimple algebraic group over a large enough field. These are nonabelian free subgroups all of whose subgroups are either cyclic or Zariski dense. As a consequence, we get new generating results for finite simple groups of Lie type and a strengthening of a theorem of Borel related to the Hausdorff-Banach-Tarski paradox. In a sequel to this paper, we use this result to also establish uniform expansion properties for random Cayley graphs over finite simple groups of Lie type.
Comments: 27 pages, no figures, submitted, Israel J. Math. It turns out that there is one specific family of algebraic group - namely Sp(4) in characteristic 3 - which our methods are unable to resolve, and we have adjusted the paper to exclude this case from the results
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