Strongly bounded groups of various cardinalities

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Abstract

Strongly bounded groups are those groups for which every action by isometries on a metric space has orbits of finite diameter. Many groups have been shown to have this property, and all the known infinite examples so far have cardinality at least 20. We produce examples of strongly bounded groups of many cardinalities, including ℵ1, answering a question of Yves de Cornulier [Comm. Algebra 34 (2006), no. 7, 2337–2345]. In fact, any infinite group embeds as a subgroup of a strongly bounded group which is, at most, two cardinalities larger.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5045-5057
Number of pages13
JournalProceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Volume148
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2020

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Keywords

  • Bergman property
  • Isometric action
  • Small cancellation over free product
  • Strong uncountable cofinality
  • Strongly bounded group

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