We give a solution to the inverse problem (given a prescribed function, find a corresponding group) for large classes of speed, entropy, isoperimetric profile, return probability and Lp-compression functions of finitely generated groups. For smaller classes, we give solutions among solvable groups of exponential volume growth. As corollaries, we prove a recent conjecture of Amir on joint evaluation of speed and entropy exponents and we obtain a new proof of the existence of uncountably many pairwise non-quasi-isometric solvable groups, originally due to Cornulier and Tessera. We also obtain a formula relating the Lp-compression exponent of a group and its wreath product with the cyclic group forp in [1,2].

The first author has associated in a natural way a profinite group to each irreducible subshift. The group in question was initially obtained as a maximal subgroup of a free profinite semigroup. In the case of minimal subshifts, the same group is shown in the present paper to also arise from geometric considerations involving the Rauzy graphs of the subshift. Indeed, the group is shown to be isomorphic to the inverse limit of the profinite completions of the fundamental groups of the Rauzy graphs of the subshift. A further result involving geometric arguments on Rauzy graphs is a criterion for freeness of the profinite group of a minimal subshift based on the Return Theorem of Berthé et al.

Multivariate cryptography is one of the main candidates to guarantee the security of communication in the presence of quantum computers. While there exist a large number of secure and efficient multivariate signature schemes, the number of practical multivariate encryption schemes is somewhat limited. In this paper we present our results on creating a new multivariate encryption scheme, which is an extension of the original SimpleMatrix encryption scheme of PQCrypto 2013. Our scheme allows fast en- and decryption and resists all known attacks against multivariate cryptosystems. Furthermore, we present a new idea to solve the decryption failure problem of the original SimpleMatrix encryption scheme.

We provide characterizations of $p\mspace {1mu}$ -nilpotency for fusion systems and $p\mspace {1mu}$ -local finite groups that are inspired by known result for finite groups. In particular, we generalize criteria by Atiyah, Brunetti, Frobenius, Quillen, Stammbach and Tate.

We prove that for any free ergodic probability measure-preserving action $${\mathbb{F}_n \curvearrowright (X, \mu)}$$ of a free group on$n$generators $${\mathbb{F}_n, 2\leq n \leq \infty}$$ , the associated group measure space II_{1}factor $${L^\infty (X)\rtimes \mathbb{F}_n}$$ has$L$^{∞}($X$) as its unique Cartan subalgebra, up to unitary conjugacy. We deduce that group measure space II_{1}factors arising from actions of free groups with different number of generators are never isomorphic. We actually prove unique Cartan decomposition results for II_{1}factors arising from arbitrary actions of a much larger family of groups, including all free products of amenable groups and their direct products.

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We characterize those Lie groups, and algebraic groups over a local field of characteristic zero, whose first reduced$L$^{$p$}-cohomology is zero for all$p$>1, extending a result of Pansu. As an application, we obtain a description of Gromov-hyperbolic groups among those groups. In particular we prove that any non-elementary Gromov-hyperbolic algebraic group over a non-Archimedean local field of zero characteristic is quasi-isometric to a 3-regular tree. We also extend the study to general semidirect products of a locally compact group by a cyclic group acting by contracting automorphisms.

Li-Nadler proposed a conjecture about traces of Hecke categories, which implies the semistable part of the Betti geometric Langlands conjecture of Ben-Zvi-Nadler in genus 1. We prove a Weyl group analogue of this conjecture. Our theorem holds in the natural generality of reflection groups in Euclidean or hyperbolic space. As a corollary, we give an expression of the centralizer of a finite order element in a reflection group using homotopy theory.

The paper presents a study of Fuglede’s $p$ -module of systems of measures in condensers in polarizable Carnot groups. In particular, we calculate the $p$ -module of measures in spherical ring domains, find the extremal measures, and finally, extend a theorem by Rodin to these groups.