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Growth tightness for groups with contracting elements

Group Theory 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

We establish growth tightness for a class of groups acting geometrically on a geodesic metric space and containing a contracting element. As a consequence, any group with nontrivial Floyd boundary are proven to be growth tight with respect to word metrics. In particular, all non-elementary relatively hyperbolic group are growth tight. This generalizes previous works of Arzhantseva-Lysenok and Sambusetti. Another interesting consequence is that CAT(0) groups with rank-1 elements are growth tight with respect to CAT(0)-metric.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5623,
  title  = {Growth tightness for groups with contracting elements},
  author = {Wenyuan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5623},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

23 pages, 2 figures.More general results are proved.Section 2 from the author's paper arXiv:1205.2994 is transformed in this paper, and will be deleted in that paper. Title changed to reflect these changes

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