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Groups of arbitrary lawlessness growth

Group Theory 2026-04-14 v2

Abstract

For a finitely generated lawless group Γ\Gamma and nNn \in \mathbb{N}, let AΓ(n)\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma} (n) be the minimal positive integer MnM_n such that for all nontrivial reduced words ww of length at most nn in the free group of fixed rank k2k \geq 2, there exists gΓk\overline{g} \in \Gamma^k of word-length at most MnM_n with w(g)ew(\overline{g}) \neq e. For any unbounded nondecreasing function f:NNf : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N} satisfying some mild assumptions, we construct Γ\Gamma such that the function AΓ\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma} is equivalent to ff. Our result generalizes both a Theorem of the first named author, who constructed groups for which AΓ\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma} is unbounded but grows more slowly than any prescribed function ff, and a result of Petschick, who constructed lawless groups for which AΓ\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma} grows faster than any tower of exponential functions.

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@article{arxiv.2503.23582,
  title  = {Groups of arbitrary lawlessness growth},
  author = {Henry Bradford and Jacob Willis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23582},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

13 pages; improved formatting

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:39:46.619Z