Discrete groups of slow subgroup growth

It is known that the subgroup growth of finitely generated linear groups is either polynomial or at least $n^{\frac{{\log n}}{{\log \log n}}} $ . In this paper we prove the existence of a finitely generated group whose subgroup growth is of type $n^{\frac{{\log n}}{{(\log \log n)^2 }}} $ . This is the slowest non-polynomial subgroup growth obtained so far for finitely generated groups. The subgroup growth typen ^logn is also realized. The proofs involve analysis of the subgroup structure of finite alternating groups and finite simple groups in general. For example, we show there is an absolute constantc such that, ifT is any finite simple group, thenT has at mostn ^{c logn} subgroups of indexn.     

Towards the Hanna Neumann conjecture using Dicks' method

The Hanna Neumann conjecture states that the intersection of two nontrivial subgroups of rankk+1 andl+1 of a free group has rank at mostkl+1. In a recent paper [3] W. Dicks proved that a strengthened form of this conjecture is equivalent to his amalgamated graph conjecture. He used this equivalence to reprove all known upper bounds on the rank of the intersection. We use his method to improve these bounds. In particular we prove an upper bound of 2kl–k–l+1 for the rank of the intersection above (k,l2) improving the earlier 2kl-min(k, l) bound of [1].We prove a special case of the amalgamated graph conjecture in the hope that it may lead to a proof of the general case and thus of the strengthened Hanna Neumann conjecture.Oblatum 6-II-1995 & 19-VI-1995Supported by the NSF grants No. CCR-92-00788 CCR-95-03254 and the (Hungarian) National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) grant No. F014919. The author was visiting the Computation and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences while part of this research was done.     

On the convergence of multipoint Padé-type approximants and quadrature formulas associated with the unit circle

We study the convergence of rational interpolants with prescribed poles on the unit circle to the Herglotz-Riesz transform of a complex measure supported on [–, ]. As a consequence, quadrature formulas arise which integrate exactly certain rational functions. Estimates of the rate of convergence of these quadrature formulas are also included.This research was performed as part of the European project ROLLS under contract CHRX-CT93-0416.