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On the growth of actions of free products




TekijätLe Boudec, Adrien; Matte Bon, Nicolás; Salo, Ville

KustantajaEuropean Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH

KustannuspaikkaBERLIN

Julkaisuvuosi2025

JournalGroups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiGroups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Lehden akronyymiGROUP GEOM DYNAM

Vuosikerta19

Numero2

Aloitussivu661

Lopetussivu680

Sivujen määrä20

ISSN1661-7207

eISSN1661-7215

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/893

Verkko-osoitehttps://doi.org/10.4171/ggd/893

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499750040


Tiivistelmä
If G is a finitely generated group and X a G-set, the growth of the action of G on X is the function that measures the largest cardinality of a ball of radius n in the (possibly non-connected) Schreier graph F(G, X). We consider the following stability problem: if G, H are finitely generated groups admitting a faithful action of growth bounded above by a function f, does the free product G * H also admit a faithful action of growth bounded above by f ? We show that the answer is positive under additional assumptions, and negative in general. In the negative direction, our counter-examples are obtained with G either the commutator subgroup of the topological full group of a minimal and expansive homeomorphism of the Cantor space, or G a Houghton group. In both cases, the group G admits a faithful action of linear growth, and we show that G * H admits no faithful action of subquadratic growth provided H is non-trivial. In the positive direction, we describe a class of groups that admit actions of linear growth and is closed under free products and exhibit examples within this class, among which the Grigorchuk group.

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This work was supported by the LABEX MILYON (ANR-10-LABX-0070) of Universite de Lyon, within the program "Investissements d'Avenir" (ANR-11-IDEX-0007) operated by the French National Research Agency.


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