Subgroup growth of virtually cyclic right-angled Coxeter groups and their free products (Q2338612)

Let \(\Gamma\) be a finitely generated group, and \(n\) a positive integer, so that the number \(s_{n}(\Gamma)\) of subgroups of \(\Gamma\) of index \(n\) is finite. In [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 101, No. 2, 556--588 (2020; Zbl 1481.20094)], the authors studied the factorial growth rate of \(s_{n}(\Gamma)\) for right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups \(\Gamma\), that is, the limits \[\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{\log(s_{n}(\Gamma))}{n \log(n)}.\] The goal of the paper under review is to treat in detail the subclass of virtually cyclic Coxeter groups and their free products. It turns out that one can obtain much finer estimates than it was possible in the general case, where the limits were determined explicitly for Artin groups, but not for all Coxeter groups.\par Recall that, given a graph \(\mathcal{G}\) with vertex set \(V\) and edge set \(E\), the right-angled Coxeter group associated to it is \[\Gamma^{\mathrm{Cox}}({\mathcal{G}})=\langle\sigma_{v} : v \in V,\sigma_{v}^{2} = e, \; {\text{for}}\; v \in V,[\sigma_{v}, \sigma_{w}] = e, \; {\text{for}}\; \{ v, w \} \in E \rangle. \] In the proofs, an asymptotic formula for the number \(n_{n}(\Gamma)\) of permutation representations of degree \(n\) of a free product \(\Gamma\) of certain right-angled Coxeter groups plays a crucial role; this generalises the asymptotic formula implicit in \textit{S. Chowla} et al. [Can. J. Math. 3, 328--334 (1951; Zbl 0043.25904)]. This is based on the fact that the exponential generating function for the sequence of the \(h_{n}(\Gamma)\) converges.