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2008 Quasi-isometrically embedded free sub-semigroups
Yves de Cornulier, Romain Tessera
Geom. Topol. 12(1): 461-473 (2008). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.461

Abstract

If G is either a connected Lie group, or a finitely generated solvable group with exponential growth, we show that G contains a quasi-isometrically embedded free sub-semigroup on 2 generators.

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Yves de Cornulier. Romain Tessera. "Quasi-isometrically embedded free sub-semigroups." Geom. Topol. 12 (1) 461 - 473, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2008.12.461

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Received: 15 December 2006; Revised: 19 December 2007; Accepted: 4 December 2007; Published: 2008
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1184.20041
MathSciNet: MR2390351
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.461

Subjects:
Primary: 20F65
Secondary: 20E05 , 20F16 , 20M05 , 22E25

Keywords: just non-virtually nilpotent groups , ping-pong Lemma , Tits alternative

Rights: Copyright © 2008 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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