Uniform exponential growth for linear groups
Let \(\Gamma\) be a finitely generated group. Given a finite generating set \(S\) of \(\Gamma\), one has the Cayley graph \({\mathcal C}(\Gamma,S)\) and the word metric \(d_S\) on \(\Gamma\). Denote by \(B_S(n)=\{\gamma\in\Gamma:d_S(\gamma,e)\leq n\}\) the ball of radius \(n\) in the Cayley graph \({\mathcal C}(\Gamma,S)\). The group \(\Gamma\) is said to have exponential growth if \(\omega_S(\Gamma):=\lim_{n\to\infty}|B_S(n)|^{1/n}>1\); and \(\Gamma\) is said to have uniform exponential growth if \(\inf_S\omega_S(\Gamma)>1\), where the infimum is taken over all finite generating sets \(S\) of \(\Gamma\). The authors prove that if \(\Gamma\) is a finitely generated group which is linear over a field of characteristic 0, then \(\Gamma\) has exponential growth if and only if it has uniform exponential growth.
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