A Geometric Approach to the Modified Milnor Problem

DOI10.1142/S0219199723500189MaRDI QIDQ6302681zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lina Chen, Xiaochun Rong, Shicheng Xu

Publication date 7 June 2018

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219199723500189

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: The Milnor Problem (modified) in the theory of group growth asks whether any finite presented group of vanishing algebraic entropy has at most polynomial growth. We show that a positive answer to the Milnor Problem (modified) is equivalent to the Nilpotency Conjecture in Riemannian geometry: given $n,d>0$, there exists a constant $epsilon(n,d)>0$ such that if a compact Riemannian $n$-manifold $M$ satisfies that Ricci curvature $op{Ric}_{M}ge-(n-1)$, diameter $dgeopdiam(M)$ and volume entropy $h(M)<epsilon(n,d)$, then the fundamental group $p{i}_1(M)$ is virtually nilpotent. We will verify the Nilpotency Conjecture in some cases, and we will verify the vanishing gap phenomena for more cases i.e., if $h(M)<epsilon(n,d)$, then $h(M)=0$.

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