Infinite groups with large balls of torsion elements and small entropy.

DOI10.1007/s00013-005-1684-4zbMath1136.20035arXivmath/0510141OpenAlexW2037609343MaRDI QIDQ2501153

Laurent Bartholdi, Yves De Cornulier

Publication date: 4 September 2006

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510141

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groupspolycyclic groupslarge balls of torsion elementssolvable virtually Abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65)

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