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edited Sep 27 2010 at 9:06

There are also the Burnside Burnside's groups $B(m,n)$ for $n\ge 665$ odd: they are of exponential growth and have the law $x^n=1$ so that they cannot contain any free subgroup on two generators. The fact that they are not solvable follows by the theorem of Rosenblatt:

"A f.g. solvable group is of exponential growth if and only if it contains a free sub-semigroup on two generators."

You can find details on paragraphs VII.C.27/28 of Pierre de la Harpe's book "Topics in Geometric Group Theory" (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, 2000)

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edited Sep 27 2010 at 9:05

Michele Triestino
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There are also the Burnside's Burnside groups $B(m,n)$ for $n\ge 665$ odd: they are of exponential growth and have the law $x^n=1$ so that they cannot contain any free subgroup on two generators. The fact that they are not solvable follows by the theorem of Rosenblatt:

"A f.g. solvable group is of exponential growth if and only if it contains a free sub-semigroup on two generators."

You can find details on paragraphs VII.C.27/28 of Pierre de la Harpe's book "Topics in Geometric Group Theory" (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, 2000)

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answered Sep 14 2010 at 16:22

Michele Triestino
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There are also the Burnside's groups $B(m,n)$ for $n\ge 665$ odd: they are of exponential growth and have the law $x^n=1$ so that they cannot contain any free subgroup on two generators. The fact that they are not solvable follows by the theorem of Rosenblatt:

"A f.g. solvable group is of exponential growth if and only if it contains a free sub-semigroup on two generators."

You can find details on paragraphs VII.C.27/28 of Pierre de la Harpe's book "Topics in Geometric Group Theory" (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, 2000)