The coarse classification of countable abelian groups

Details The coarse classification of countable abelian groups The coarse classification of countable abelian groups

2008-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/0807.1141v2

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Group Theory

25 pages. Longer version with new results about FCC groups, locally finite-by-abelian groups, locally nilpotent-by-finite grou

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We prove that two countable locally finite-by-abelian groups G,H endowed with proper left-invariant metrics are coarsely equivalent if and only if their asymptotic dimensions coincide and the groups are either both finitely-generated or both are infinitely generated. On the other hand, we show that each countable group G that coarsely embeds into a countable abelian group is locally nilpotent-by-finite. Moreover, the group G is locally abelian-by-finite if and only if G is undistorted in the sense that G can be written as the union of countably many finitely generated subgroups G_n such that each G_n is undistorted in G_{n+1} (which means that the identity inclusion from G_n to G_{n+1} is a quasi-isometric embedding with respect to word metrics).

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