Growth rates of amenable groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH.2005.8.3.389MaRDI QIDQ4681502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luc Guyot, Goulnara N. Arzhantseva, Victor S. Guba

Publication date 23 June 2005

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406013

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupsgrowth ratesderived seriesAbelian-by-nilpotent groupsvirtually metabelian groupslengths of relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Generalizations of solvable and nilpotent groups (20F19) Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: Let $F_m$ be a free group with $m$ generators and let $R$ be its normal subgroup such that $F_m/R$ projects onto $zz$. We give a lower bound for the growth rate of the group $F_m/R^{\prime }$ (where $R^{\prime }$ is the derived subgroup of $R$) in terms of the length $ho=ho(R)$ of the shortest nontrivial relation in $R$. It follows that the growth rate of $F_m/R^{\prime }$ approaches $2m-1$ as $ho$ approaches infinity. This implies that the growth rate of an $m$-generated amenable group can be arbitrarily close to the maximum value $2m-1$. This answers an open question by P. de la Harpe. In fact we prove that such groups can be found already in the class of abelian-by-nilpotent groups as well as in the class of finite extensions of metabelian groups.

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