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Scale-invariant groups. (English)
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17 November 2011
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Summary: Motivated by the renormalization method in statistical physics, Itai Benjamini defined a finitely generated infinite group \(G\) to be scale-invariant if there is a nested sequence of finite index subgroups \(G_n\) that are all isomorphic to \(G\) and whose intersection is a finite group. He conjectured that every scale-invariant group has polynomial growth, hence is virtually nilpotent. We disprove his conjecture by showing that the following groups (mostly finite-state self-similar groups) are scale-invariant: the lamplighter groups \(F\wr\mathbb Z\), where \(F\) is any finite Abelian group; the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups \(\text{BS}(1,m)\); the affine groups \(A\ltimes\mathbb Z^d\), for any \(A\leq\text{GL}(\mathbb Z,d)\). However, the conjecture remains open with some natural stronger notions of scale-invariance for groups and transitive graphs. We construct scale-invariant tilings of certain Cayley graphs of the discrete Heisenberg group, whose existence is not immediate just from the scale-invariance of the group. We also note that torsion-free non-elementary hyperbolic groups are not scale-invariant.
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self-similar groups
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nested sequences of subgroups
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finite automata
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subgroups of finite index
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injective endomorphisms
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expanding maps
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co-Hopfian groups
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percolation renormalization
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scale-invariant groups
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Følner monotilings
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Heisenberg group
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lamplighter groups
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affine groups
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