The rank gradient from a combinatorial viewpoint
Author(s) -
Miklós Abért,
Andrei JaikinZapirain,
Nikolay Nikolov
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
groups geometry and dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1661-7215
pISSN - 1661-7207
DOI - 10.4171/ggd/124
Subject(s) - trichotomy (philosophy) , mathematics , finitely generated abelian group , rank (graph theory) , combinatorics , group (periodic table) , normal subgroup , stallings theorem about ends of groups , abelian group , discrete mathematics , pure mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , organic chemistry
This paper investigates the asymptotic behaviour of the minimal number ofgenerators of finite index subgroups in residually finite groups. We analyzethree natural classes of groups: amenable groups, groups possessing an infinitesoluble normal subgroup and virtually free groups. As a tool for the amenablecase we generalize Lackenby's trichotomy theorem on finitely presented groups
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