About the metric approximation of Higman's group

2010/05/05 by Thom, Andreas · 1 citation
#20F65 #FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR) #Operator Algebras (math.OA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1005.0823

Abstract

We prove that Higman's group does not embed into a metric ultraproduct of finite groups with a commutator-contractive invariant length function.

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