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  2. Growth rate (group theory) - Wikipedia

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    The free abelian group has a polynomial growth rate of order d. The discrete Heisenberg group H 3 {\displaystyle H_{3}} has a polynomial growth rate of order 4. This fact is a special case of the general theorem of Hyman Bass and Yves Guivarch that is discussed in the article on Gromov's theorem .

  3. Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth - Wikipedia

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    The growth rate of a group is a well-defined notion from asymptotic analysis. To say that a finitely generated group has polynomial growth means the number of elements of length at most n (relative to a symmetric generating set) is bounded above by a polynomial function p(n). The order of growth is then the least degree of any such polynomial ...

  4. Grigorchuk group - Wikipedia

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    In the mathematical area of group theory, the Grigorchuk group or the first Grigorchuk group is a finitely generated group constructed by Rostislav Grigorchuk that provided the first example of a finitely generated group of intermediate (that is, faster than polynomial but slower than exponential) growth. The group was originally constructed by ...

  5. Tits alternative - Wikipedia

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    A linear group is not amenable if and only if it contains a non-abelian free group (thus the von Neumann conjecture, while not true in general, holds for linear groups). The Tits alternative is an important ingredient [2] in the proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth. In fact the alternative essentially establishes the result ...

  6. Approximate group - Wikipedia

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    The Breuillard–Green–Tao theorem on classification of approximate groups can be used to give a new proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth.The result obtained is actually a bit stronger since it establishes that there exists a "growth gap" between virtually nilpotent groups (of polynomial growth) and other groups; that is, there exists a (superpolynomial) function such ...

  7. Group theory - Wikipedia

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    Every polynomial equation in one variable has a Galois group, that is a certain permutation group on its roots. The axioms of a group formalize the essential aspects of symmetry. Symmetries form a group: they are closed because if you take a symmetry of an object, and then apply another symmetry, the result will still be a symmetry. The ...

  8. Virtually - Wikipedia

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    Any group that is virtually abelian. Any nilpotent group. Any semidirect product where N is nilpotent and H is finite. Any semidirect product where N is finite and H is nilpotent. Gromov's theorem says that a finitely generated group is virtually nilpotent if and only if it has polynomial growth.

  9. Group (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The manipulations of the Rubik's Cube form the Rubik's Cube group.. In mathematics, a group is a set with an operation that associates an element of the set to every pair of elements of the set (as does every binary operation) and satisfies the following constraints: the operation is associative, it has an identity element, and every element of the set has an inverse element.