New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 17 (2011) 321-329

  

Daniel Allen, Megan Cream, Kate Finlay, John Meier, and Ranjan Rohatgi

Complete growth series and products of groups

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Published: June 3, 2011
Keywords: complete growth series, free products, graph products
Subject: 20F65, 20E06, 20E22

Abstract
The property of having a rational complete growth series is shown to be preserved by direct and graph products, as well as certain free products with amalgamation. These results extend earlier work of Alonso, Chiswell and Lewin.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the NSF for the support of grant DMS-055282.


Author information

Daniel Allen:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maine at Farmington
daniel.steven.allen@gmail.com

Megan Cream:
Department of Mathematics, Emory University
mcream@emory.edu

Kate Finlay:
Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College
finlayk@lafayette.edu

John Meier:
Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College
meierj@lafayette.edu

Ranjan Rohatgi:
Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
ranjan@u.northwestern.edu