The asymptotic density of finite-order elements in virtually nilpotent groups.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.06.023zbMath1130.20037arXivmath/0601126OpenAlexW1987179065MaRDI QIDQ2460803

Pallavi Dani

Publication date: 16 November 2007

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601126

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupscrystallographic groupselements of finite orderword metricsasymptotic densitiesvirtually nilpotent groupsnilpotent-by-finite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15)

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• GAP

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