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Products of Infinite Countable Groups Have Fixed Price One

Group Theory 2026-01-06 v4 Probability

Abstract

We prove that the product of any two infinite countable groups has fixed price one. This resolves a longstanding problem posed by Gaboriau. The proof uses the propagation method to construct a Poisson horoball process as a weak limit of a sequence of factors of iid. We then construct a low-cost graphing by showing that the resulting horoballs have a variant of the infinite touching property almost surely, if the metric and the other parameters of the construction are chosen carefully. A novelty is providing direct simple proofs that do not rely on sophisticated results like amenability and double-recurrence, which are used in related works. An essential tool for avoiding any growth conditions is the convergence in the sense of point processes of pointed closed subsets, which is a notion from stochastic geometry. Also, to manage the overlapping of the horoballs, a generalization of the induction lemma is presented for random multisets of a group.

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@article{arxiv.2509.08325,
  title  = {Products of Infinite Countable Groups Have Fixed Price One},
  author = {Ali Khezeli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08325},
  year   = {2026}
}

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35 pages, 4 figures