Extremal behavior of divisibility functions.

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-9955-5zbMATH Open1314.20023OpenAlexW2039071938MaRDI QIDQ2339906FDOQ2339906

Authors Khalid Bou-Rabee, D. B. McReynolds

Publication date 14 April 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4727

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsnilpotent groupsresidual finitenesslinear groupsdivisibility functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

Abstract: In this short article, we study the extremal behavior $F_{G}amma(n)$ of divisibility functions $D_{G}amma$ introduced by the first author for finitely generated groups $Gamma$. We show finitely generated subgroups of $GL(m,K)$ for an infinite field $K$ have at most polynomial growth for the function $F_{G}amma(n)$. Consequently, we obtain a dichotomy for the growth rate of $log{F}_{G}amma(n)$ for finitely generated subgroups of $GL(n,C)$. We also show that if $F_{G}amma(n)preceqloglogn$, then $Gamma$ is finite. In contrast, when $Gamma$ contains an element of infinite order, $lognpreceq{F}_{G}amma(n)$. We end with a brief discussion of some geometric motivation for this work.

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