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Distortion in Free Nilpotent Groups

Tara Davis

Published 2010-09-14Version 1

We prove that a subgroup of a finitely generated free nilpotent group F is undistorted if and only if it is a retract of a subgroup of finite index in F.

Categories: math.GR
Subjects: 20F65, 20F18, 20F05, 20F10
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