{ "id": "1808.06371", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-08-20T10:06:57.000Z", "updated": "2018-08-20T10:06:57.000Z", "title": "Rational Growth in Virtually Abelian Groups", "authors": [ "Alex Evetts" ], "comment": "29 pages. Comments are welcome", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We show that any subgroup of a finitely generated virtually abelian group $G$ grows rationally relative to $G$, that the set of right cosets of any subgroup of $G$ grows rationally, and that the set of conjugacy classes of $G$ grows rationally. These results hold regardless of the choice of finite weighted generating set for $G$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-08-20T10:06:57.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20F65", "20E45", "05E15" ], "keywords": [ "rational growth", "finitely generated virtually abelian group", "right cosets", "conjugacy classes", "finite weighted generating set" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 29, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }