{
  "id": "1005.0823",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-05-05T19:36:09.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-05-05T19:36:09.000Z",
  "title": "About the metric approximation of Higman's group",
  "authors": [
    "Andreas Thom"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages, no figures",
  "categories": [
    "math.GR",
    "math.OA"
  ],
  "abstract": "We prove that Higman's group does not embed into a metric ultraproduct of finite groups with a commutator-contractive invariant length function.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-05-05T19:36:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "20F65"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "higmans group",
      "metric approximation",
      "commutator-contractive invariant length function",
      "finite groups"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010arXiv1005.0823T"
    }
  }
}