Geometric group theory and arithmetic diameter

DOI10.5486/PMD.2011.5087MaRDI QIDQ2898859zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Melvyn B. Nathanson

Publication date 12 July 2012

Published in Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0786

zbMATH Keywords

additive number theoryarithmetic diameterexponential Diophantine equationsgeometric group theorygeometric number theorysums of powersword metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density, gaps, topology (11B05) Additive bases, including sumsets (11B13) Additive number theory; partitions (11P99) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: Let X be a group with identity e, let A be an infinite set of generators for X, and let (X,d_A) be the metric space with the word metric d_A induced by A. If the diameter of the space is infinite, then for every positive integer h there are infinitely many elements x in X with d_A(e,x)=h. It is proved that if P is a nonempty finite set of prime numbers and A is the set of positive integers whose prime factors all belong to P, then the diameter of the metric space (�,d_A) is infinite. Let lambda_A(h) denote the smallest positive integer x with d_A(e,x)=h. It is an open problem to compute lambda_A(h) and estimate its growth rate.

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