Conjugacy growth in polycyclic groups.

DOI10.1007/S00013-011-0222-9zbMATH Open1236.20040arXiv1006.1064OpenAlexW2110438004MaRDI QIDQ633176FDOQ633176

Authors: Michael Hull 

Publication date: 31 March 2011

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

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the conjugacy growth function of a group, which counts the number of conjugacy classes which intersect a ball of radius $n$ centered at the identity. We prove that in the case of virtually polycyclic groups, this function is either exponential or polynomially bounded, and is polynomially bounded exactly when the group is virtually nilpotent. The proof is fairly short, and makes use of the fact that any polycyclic group has a subgroup of finite index which can be embedded as a lattice in a Lie group, as well as exponential radical of Lie groups and Dirichlet's approximation theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1064

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsgenerating setspolycyclic-by-finite groupsnumbers of conjugacy classesconjugacy growthconjugacy growth functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16)

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