Algebra seminar

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Jason Bell, Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo

“Gromov’s Theorem: Part III”

We continue our look at the theorem of Milnor and Wolf and will prove that a finitely generated solvable group of subexponential growth is nilpotent-by-finite. We will also look at solvable-by-finite groups.