Distortion in free nilpotent groups.

DOI10.1142/S0218196710005819MaRDI QIDQ3162713zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tara C. Davis

Publication date 21 October 2010

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2730

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsfree nilpotent groupsmembership problemsubgroup distortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We prove that a subgroup of a finitely generated free nilpotent group F is undistorted if and only if it is a retract of a subgroup of finite index in F.

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