Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
2007-10-18
Mathematics
Group Theory
26 pages
Scientific paper
A discrete group which admits a faithful, finite dimensional, linear representation over a field $\mathbb F$ of characteristic zero is called linear. This note combines the natural structure of semi-direct products with work of A. Lubotzky on the existence of linear representations to develop a technique to give sufficient conditions to show that a semi-direct product is linear. Let $G$ denote a discrete group which is a semi-direct product given by a split extension $1 \to \pi \to G \to \Gamma \to 1$. This note defines an additional type of structure for this semi-direct product called a stable extension below. The main results are as follows: 1. If $\pi$ and $\Gamma$ are linear, and the extension is stable, then $G$ is also linear. Restrictions concerning this extension are necessary to guarantee that $G$ is linear as seen from properties of the Formanek-Procesi "poison group". 2. If the action of $\Gamma$ on $\pi$ has a "Galois-like" property that it factors through the automorphisms of certain natural "towers of groups over $\pi$" (to be defined below), then the associated extension is stable and thus $G$ is linear. 3. The condition of a stable extension also implies that $G$ admits filtration quotients which themselves give a natural structure of Lie algebra and which also imply earlier results of Kohno, and Falk-Randell on the Lie algebra attached to the descending central series associated to the fundamental groups of complex hyperplane complements. The methods here suggest that a possible technique for obtaining new linearity results may be to analyze automorphisms of towers of groups.
Cohen Frederick R.
Conder Marston
Lopez Javier
Prassidis Stratos
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