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Quasi-isometrically embedded free sub-semigroups
de Cornulier, Yves1 ; Tessera, Romain2
1 IRMAR, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
2 Department of Mathematics, Stevenson Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37240, USA
Geometry & topology, Tome 12 (2008) no. 1, pp. 461-473.

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If G is either a connected Lie group, or a finitely generated solvable group with exponential growth, we show that G contains a quasi-isometrically embedded free sub-semigroup on 2 generators.

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2008.12.461
Keywords: Tits alternative, ping-pong Lemma, just non-virtually nilpotent groups

de Cornulier, Yves 1 ; Tessera, Romain 2

1 IRMAR, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
2 Department of Mathematics, Stevenson Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37240, USA 
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