paper

Matrix entries, unipotents, and linearity of amalgams

arXiv:2603.23969

Abstract

We investigate linearity of amalgams of subgroups of algebraic groups along intersections with algebraic subgroups. In the process, we establish linearity of certain "doubles" of linear groups, and obtain new examples of finitely generated residually finite groups that fail to be linear.

18 pages. Minor edits; Changqian Li has since posted a response arXiv:2605.21734 to a question raised in the previous version