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About the metric approximation of Higman's group
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Andreas Thom
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March 6, 2012
Abstract.
We prove that Higman's group does not embed into a metric ultraproduct of finite groups with a commutator-contractive invariant length function.
Received: 2011-05-15
Published Online: 2012-03-06
Published in Print: 2012-March
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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