Subgroup distortion in wreath products of cyclic groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2011.04.018MaRDI QIDQ649867zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tara C. Davis, Alexander Y. Olshanskii

Publication date 6 December 2011

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4364

zbMATH Keywords

distortion functionsfinitely generated subgroupslamplighter grouplengths of elementssubgroup distortionswreath products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

Abstract: We study the effects of subgroup distortion in the wreath products A wr Z, where A is finitely generated abelian. We show that every finitely generated subgroup of A wr Z has distortion function equivalent to some polynomial. Moreover, for A infinite, and for any polynomial l^k, there is a 2-generated subgroup of A wr Z having distortion function equivalent to the given polynomial. Also a formula for the length of elements in arbitrary wreath product H wr G easily shows that the group Z_2 wr Z^2 has distorted subgroups, while the lamplighter group Z_2 wr Z has no distorted (finitely generated) subgroups.

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