Properties of translation numbers in nilpotent groups

DOI10.1080/00927879808826184zbMath0902.20015OpenAlexW2026509841MaRDI QIDQ4390562

Gregory R. Conner

Publication date: 15 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826184

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsnilpotent groupsword metricstranslation numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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The degree of commutativity and lamplighter groups ⋮ Translation lengths of outer automorphisms of finitely generated free-by-finite groups ⋮ Braid groups of imprimitive complex reflection groups.

Cites Work

• Rational subgroups of biautomatic groups
• Spaces with non-positive curvature
• Some relations between the metric structure and the algebraic structure of the fundamental group in manifolds of nonpositive curvature

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