Uniform growth rate
Group Theory
2016-05-13 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In an evolutionary system in which the rules of mutation are local in nature, the number of possible outcomes after mutations is an exponential function of but with a rate that depends only on the set of rules and not the size of the original object. We apply this principle to find a uniform upper bound for the growth rate of certain groups including the mapping class group. We also find a uniform upper bound for the growth rate of the number of homotopy classes of triangulations of an oriented surface that can be obtained from a given triangulation using diagonal flips.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.6701,
title = {Uniform growth rate},
author = {Kasra Rafi and Jing Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6701},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
13 pages, 5 figures, minor revisions, final version appears in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc