Metric properties of Baumslag-Solitar groups.

DOI10.1142/S0218196715500198MaRDI QIDQ2942801zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors José Burillo, Murray Elder

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3859

zbMATH Keywords

growth ratesword lengthsBaumslag-Solitar groupsgrowth seriesword metricmetric estimatesfinite symmetric generating setsBritton normal form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

Abstract: We compute estimates for the word metric of Baumslag--Solitar groups in terms of the Britton's lemma normal form. As a corollary, we find lower bounds for the growth rate for the groups $BS(p,q)$, with $1<pleq$.

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