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Growth of relatively hyperbolic groups

Author(s): Xiangdong Xie
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 695-704.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F65
Posted: September 15, 2006
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Abstract: We show that a finitely generated group that is hyperbolic relative to a collection of proper subgroups either is virtually cyclic or has uniform exponential growth.


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Additional Information:

Xiangdong Xie
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0123
Email: xxie@math.uc.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08537-6
PII: S 0002-9939(06)08537-6
Keywords: Exponential growth, uniform exponential growth, relatively hyperbolic groups, geometrically finite groups.
Received by editor(s): April 10, 2005
Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 18, 2005
Posted: September 15, 2006
Communicated by: Alexander N. Dranishnikov
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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