Date:
Thu, 16/11/202310:00-11:00
Location:
Ross 70
Title: Growth and growth gaps.
Speaker: Dani Wise
McGill University
Abstract:
A fundamental topic in geometric group theory is the study of the "growth" of a finitely generated group G, which is a function f(n) measuring the number of elements in a radius n ball in the Cayley graph of G.
It seems interesting to compare the growth of a group G to the growth of its subgroups. And this leads to a number of amusing problems. I will give a quick survey about growth, and about "growth gaps" in finitely generated groups.
Speaker: Dani Wise
McGill University
Abstract:
A fundamental topic in geometric group theory is the study of the "growth" of a finitely generated group G, which is a function f(n) measuring the number of elements in a radius n ball in the Cayley graph of G.
It seems interesting to compare the growth of a group G to the growth of its subgroups. And this leads to a number of amusing problems. I will give a quick survey about growth, and about "growth gaps" in finitely generated groups.