Growth of finitely generated solvable groups

Isomorphism of finitely generated solvable groups is weakly universal

We show that the isomorphism relation for finitely generated solvable groups of class 3 is a weakly universal countable Borel equivalence relation. This improves on previous results. The proof uses a modification of a construction of Neumann and Neumann. Elementary arguments show that isomorphism of finitely generated metabelian or nilpotent groups can not achieve this Borel complexity. In this...

Problems on the geometry of finitely generated solvable groups

A survey of problems, conjectures, and theorems about quasiisometric classification and rigidity for finitely generated solvable groups.

Growth of Finitely Generated Solvable Groups and Curvature of Riemannian Manifolds

If a group Γ is generated by a finite subset 5, then one has the "growth function" gs, where gs(m) is the number of distinct elements of Γ expressible as words of length <m on 5. Roughly speaking, J. Milnor [9] shows that the asymptotic behaviour of gs does not depend on choice of finite generating set S c Γ, and that lower (resp. upper) bounds on the curvature of a riemannian manifold M result...

Finitely generated groups with polynomial index growth

We prove that a finitely generated soluble residually finite group has polynomial index growth if and only if it is a minimax group. We also show that if a finitely generated group with PIG is residually finite-soluble then it is a linear group. These results apply in particular to boundedly generated groups; they imply that every infinite BG residually finite group has an infinite linear quoti...

Finitely Generated Abelian Groups