Scale-invariant groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/119zbMATH Open1236.20031arXiv0811.0220MaRDI QIDQ646380FDOQ646380

Gábor Pete, Volodymyr Nekrashevych

Publication date: 17 November 2011

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the renormalization method in statistical physics, Itai Benjamini defined a finitely generated infinite group G to be scale-invariant if there is a nested sequence of finite index subgroups G_n that are all isomorphic to G and whose intersection is a finite group. He conjectured that every scale-invariant group has polynomial growth, hence is virtually nilpotent. We disprove his conjecture by showing that the following groups (mostly finite-state self-similar groups) are scale-invariant: the lamplighter groups Fwr�, where F is any finite Abelian group; the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups BS(1,m); the affine groups Altimes�^d, for any Aleq GL(�,d). However, the conjecture remains open with some natural stronger notions of scale-invariance for groups and transitive graphs. We construct scale-invariant tilings of certain Cayley graphs of the discrete Heisenberg group, whose existence is not immediate just from the scale-invariance of the group. We also note that torsion-free non-elementary hyperbolic groups are not scale-invariant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0220

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupaffine groupsfinite automatasubgroups of finite indexself-similar groupsexpanding mapsinjective endomorphismslamplighter groupsco-Hopfian groups[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=F%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDlner+monotilings&go=Go F��lner monotilings]nested sequences of subgroupspercolation renormalizationscale-invariant groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15)

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