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SUMMARY:Tits alternative for the Cremona group
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DESCRIPTION:Stéphane Lamy (Université Paul Sabatier\, Toulouse)\nA group
  G satisfies the Tits alternative if any subgroup contains either a free g
 roup over 2 generators\, of a solvable group of finite index.\nThe classic
 al result by Jacques Tits is that the linear groups satisfy this alternati
 ve\, up to restricting to finitely generated subgroups in the case of a gr
 ound field of positive characteristic.  \nIn this talk I will explain the
  strategy of proof to show that the plane Cremona group also satisfies the
  Tits alternative.\nIt will essentially be a survey of previous results by
  Cantat and Urech\, with a few contributions by myself mainly for the case
  of positive characteristic\, and also for the classification of torsion s
 ubgroups.
LOCATION:MA A3 30 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MA%20A3%2030
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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