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| Sep 14, 2010 at 17:04 | comment | added | Yiftach Barnea | As far as I remember the following is true: the Grigorchuk group has intermidia word growth. Now linear groups have either polynomial or exponential word growth and the Tits alternative played an important role in the original proof of this. So the Grigorchuk group is even more than not satisfying the Tits alternative. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:10 | history | answered | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |