Random triangular Burnside groups

Abstract

We introduce a model for random groups in varieties of $n$-periodic groups as $n$-periodic quotients of triangular random groups. We show that for an explicit $d_{\mathrm{crit}}\in(1/3,1/2)$, for densities $d\in(1/3,d_{\mathrm{crit}})$ and for $n$ large enough, the model produces \emph{infinite} $n$-periodic groups. As an application, we obtain, for every fixed large enough $n$, for every $p\in (1,\infty)$ an infinite $n$-periodic group with fixed points for all isometric actions on $L^p$-spaces. Our main contribution is to show that certain random triangular groups are uniformly acylindrically hyperbolic.