Relative subgroup growth and subgroup distortion

DOI10.4171/GGD/312MaRDI QIDQ2347652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tara C. Davis, Alexander Y. Olshanskii

Publication date 5 June 2015

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5208

zbMATH Keywords

distortionembeddings of groupslength functionmembership problemrelative growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

Abstract: We study the relative growth of finitely generated subgroups in finitely generated groups, and the corresponding distortion function of the embeddings. We explore which functions are equivalent to the relative growth functions and distortion functions of finitely generated subgroups. We also study the connections between these two asymptotic invariants of group embeddings. We give conditions under which a length function on a finitely generated group can be extended to a length function on a larger group.

Review text

Summary: We study the relative growth of finitely generated subgroups in finitely generated groups, and the corresponding distortion function of the embeddings. We explore which functions are equivalent to the relative growth functions and distortion functions of finitely generated subgroups. We also study the connections between these two asymptotic invariants of group embeddings. We answer \textit{M. Gromov}'s [Geometric group theory. Volume 2: Asymptotic invariants of infinite groups. Proceedings of the symposium held at the Sussex University, Brighton, 1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1993; Zbl 0841.20039)] question on the relationship between distortion and connectivity radius functions. We give conditions under which a length function on a finitely generated group can be extended to a length function on a larger group.

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