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Groups which are metrically weakly sofic with respect to word norms

Group Theory 2025-04-23 v2

Abstract

We consider metric versions of weak soficity, LEF and residual finiteness. The main results of the paper extend Glebsky and Rivera's characterization of weak soficity to the case of normally finitely generated groups with word metrics. Metric LEF and residual finiteness are also characterized in this class. We deduce that the free group F2\mathsf{F}_2 is not metrically weakly sofic with respect to its standard invariant word norm.

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@article{arxiv.2410.20249,
  title  = {Groups which are metrically weakly sofic with respect to word norms},
  author = {Aleksander Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20249},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages; small corrections in v2 (mainly in Section 3). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2311.16437

R2 v1 2026-06-28T19:36:46.865Z