The geometry of spheres in free Abelian groups.

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9700-XMaRDI QIDQ691073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Moon Duchin, Samuel Lelièvre, Christoper Mooney

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0053

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsgenerating setsgeodesicsconvex geometryconvex polyhedrageometric group theoryword lengthscounting problemsword metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Asymptotic theory of convex bodies (52A23) Metric geometry (51F99) Torsion-free groups, finite rank (20K15)

Abstract: We study word metrics on Z^d by developing tools that are fine enough to measure dependence on the generating set. We obtain counting and distribution results for the words of length n. With this, we show that counting measure on spheres always converges to a limit measure on a limit shape (strongly, in an appropriate sense). The existence of a limit measure is quite strong-even virtually abelian groups need not satisfy these kinds of asymptotic formulas. Using the limit measure, we can reduce probabilistic questions about word metrics to problems in convex geometry of Euclidean space. As an application, we give asymptotics for the spherical growth function with respect to any generating set, as well as statistics for other "size-like" functions.

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