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On growth and torsion of groups

  • Laurent Bartholdi

    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

  • Floriane Pochon

    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Abstract

We give a subexponential upper bound and a superpolynomial lower bound on the growth function of the Fabrykowski–Gupta group.

As a consequence, we answer negatively a question by Longobardi, Maj and Rhemtulla about characterizing groups containing no free subsemigroups on two generators.

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Laurent Bartholdi, Floriane Pochon, On growth and torsion of groups. Groups Geom. Dyn. 3 (2009), no. 4, pp. 525–539

DOI 10.4171/GGD/68