Coarse length can be unbounded in 3-step nilpotent Lie groups

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contents In "On the asymptotics of the growth of 2-step nilpotent groups" (J. London Math. Soc. (2), 58 (1998)), we remarked that, contrary to 2-step nilpotent simply connected Lie groups, in 3-step nilpotent simply connected Lie groups it is possible that `$\mathbb{R}$-words' in the given generators cannot be replaced by an equally long $\mathbb{R}$-word representing the same group element and having a bounded number of direction changes. In this note, we present an example for this phenomenon.
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spellingShingle Coarse length can be unbounded in 3-step nilpotent Lie groups
Stoll, Michael
Group Theory
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In "On the asymptotics of the growth of 2-step nilpotent groups" (J. London Math. Soc. (2), 58 (1998)), we remarked that, contrary to 2-step nilpotent simply connected Lie groups, in 3-step nilpotent simply connected Lie groups it is possible that `$\mathbb{R}$-words' in the given generators cannot be replaced by an equally long $\mathbb{R}$-word representing the same group element and having a bounded number of direction changes. In this note, we present an example for this phenomenon.
title Coarse length can be unbounded in 3-step nilpotent Lie groups
topic Group Theory
20F05, 20F18, 20F65, 22E25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10408