Uniform growth of groups acting on Cartan-Hadamard spaces. (Q638779)
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Uniform growth of groups acting on Cartan-Hadamard spaces. (English)
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14 September 2011
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Summary: We investigate the growth of finitely generated groups. We recall the definition of the algebraic entropy of a group and show that if the group is acting as a discrete subgroup of the isometry group of a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with pinched negative curvature then a Tits alternative is true. More precisely the group is either virtually nilpotent or has a uniform growth bounded below by an explicit constant.
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finitely generated groups
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groups acting on Cartan-Hadamard spaces
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Tits alternative
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manifolds with pinched negative curvature
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algebraic entropy
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isometry groups
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virtually nilpotent groups
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groups of uniform growth
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