Site Navigation
Categories:
Geometric group theory
Metric geometry
Properties of groups

Summary Of: Word metric

The word metric on G is very closely related to the... the word metric measures the length of the shortest path in the Cayley graph between two elements of... 3 in the word metric is therefore equal to 3... between two integers m and n in the word metric is equal to... in the word metric is equal to... in the word metric with respect to S is defined to be... The word metric on G satisfies the axioms for a... The word metric has an equivalent definition formulated in more geometric terms using the... The word metric on G can also be defined without assuming that the generating set S is closed... Then define the word metric with respect to S to be the word metric with respect to the symmetrization of... The word metric on a group G is not unique... of word metrics says that any finitely generated word metric on G is... isometrically invariant property satisfied by the word metric of G or by any model space of G is an isomorphism invariant of G...

Encyclodia Page On: Word metric

These Are Links To Other Documents
group theory | group | metric | word | generating set | Cayley graph | generating set | geometric group theory | integers | vectors | Cartesian plane | Cayley graph | taxicab geometry | generating set | word | metric | Cayley graph | | | free group | acts | isometry | bilipschitz | growth rate | growth rate | geometric group theory | actions | quasi-isometric | proper | geodesic metric space | acts | properly discontinuously | cocompactly | geometric group theory | ISBN 0-444-82432-4 | Categories | Geometric group theory | Metric geometry | Properties of groups |
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Word metric".