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Fractional distortion in hyperbolic groups

Group Theory 2025-06-24 v2

Abstract

For all integers p>q>0p>q>0 and k>0k >0, and all non-elementary torsion-free hyperbolic groups HH, we construct a hyperbolic group GG in which HH is a subgroup, such that the distortion function of HH in GG grows like expk(np/q)\exp^k(n^{p/q}). Here, expk\exp^k denotes the kk-fold-iterated exponential function.

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@article{arxiv.2403.08645,
  title  = {Fractional distortion in hyperbolic groups},
  author = {Pallavi Dani and Timothy Riley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08645},
  year   = {2025}
}

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96 pages, 42 figures, to appear in Advances in Mathematics

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