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

wreath productsfinitely generated subgroupslamplighter groupdistortion functionssubgroup distortionslengths of elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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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