Bi-Lipschitz equivalent metrics on groups, and a problem in additive number theory

DOI10.4171/PM/1888MaRDI QIDQ555199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Melvyn B. Nathanson

Publication date 22 July 2011

Published in Portugaliae Mathematica. Nova Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3254

zbMATH Keywords

metric geometrygeometric group theorycombinatorial number theoryadditive number theory\(g\)-adic representationbi-Lipschitz equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Geometric group theory (20F65) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Additive bases, including sumsets (11B13) Metric geometry (51F99) Representation functions (11B34)

Abstract: There is a standard "word length" metric canonically associated to any set of generators for a group. In particular, for any integers a and b greater than 1, the additive group of integers has generating sets {a^i}_{i=0}^{infty} and {b^j}_{j=0}^{infty} with associated metrics d_A and d_B, respectively. It is proved that these metrics are bi-Lipschitz equivalent if and only if there exist positive integers m and n such that a^m = b^n.

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