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Intersection growth in groups

Group Theory 2013-12-06 v2

Abstract

The intersection growth of a group GG is the asymptotic behavior of the index of the intersection of all subgroups of GG with index at most nn, and measures the Hausdorff dimension of GG in profinite metrics. We study intersection growth in free groups and special linear groups and relate intersection growth to quantifying residual finiteness.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7993,
  title  = {Intersection growth in groups},
  author = {Ian Biringer and Khalid Bou-Rabee and Martin Kassabov and Francesco Matucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7993},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

20 pages, no figures. Revised version. We extend estimates to polycyclic groups and explain why normal intersection growth is a profinite invariant. Theorem 6.1 previously contained an error which has now been fixed

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