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Relative growth in hyperbolic groups

Dynamical Systems 2019-12-09 v2

Abstract

In this note we obtain estimates on the relative growth of normal subgroups of non-elementary hyperbolic groups, particularly those with free abelian quotient. As a corollary, we deduce that the associated relative growth series fail to be rational.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07503,
  title  = {Relative growth in hyperbolic groups},
  author = {Stephen Cantrell and Richard Sharp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07503},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages

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