University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Colloquium

Dmitry Jakobson

California Institute of Technology

January 19, 1999

Spectral gaps for subgroups of SU(2)


Abstract: We present a new method for constructing subgroups of SU(2) with the spectral gap. This provides an elementary solution of the Ruziewicz problem, and gives many new examples of subgroups with the spectral gap.