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Weight-one counting misses Heisenberg growth
Statement refuted
The claim that every independent lower-central coordinate in every word ball of a finitely generated nilpotent group has range bounded linearly in the radius is false. Counting all such coordinates with weight one can therefore give the wrong polynomial degree.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Use H with horizontal generators x,y, central z=[x,y], and unique normal form x^a y^b z^k.
H has three independent normal coordinates and growth degree four (The discrete Heisenberg group has growth degree four).
, with central exponent attainable at length O(sqrt of its absolute value) (The Heisenberg center is quadratically distorted).
Counterexample
For every integer the explicit word has length at most 4N. Its normal coordinate tuple is (0,0,N^2), since the ordered form is unique. Hence the central coordinate in B(4N) can equal N^2.
If a fixed linear bound held in every ball B(n), step 1.1 would imply for every positive integer N. Taking any integer N>4C contradicts this. Thus the claimed uniform linear bound fails. Moreover H has three independent coordinates but ball growth degree four by F1, so the predicted degree three from weight-one counting is false; positive multiples of n^4 cannot be bounded above by a fixed multiple of n^3 as n grows.
Source notes
Druţu–Kapovich, Lectures on Geometric Group Theory (585-page draft), Corollary 12.39 and Theorem 12.48, pp.322–323,328–329. Draft Corollary 12.39 supplies the central compression phenomenon. The actual refutation uses a concrete commutator word and quantifies against every possible linear constant.
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Sources
- Druţu–Kapovich, Lectures on Geometric Group Theory (585-page draft) (standard reference, not scraped)