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I realized that I know groups with distorted cyclic subgroups and groups all of whose free abelian subgroups are undistorted, but nothing between. Maybe it is a naive question, but:

Does there exist a group $G_n$ all of whose free abelian subgroups of rank $\leq n$ are undistorted and containing a distorted free abelian subgroup of rank $n+1$?

The case $n=2$ seems to be already interesting.

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    $\begingroup$ What about lattices in Sol? I think their cyclic subgroups are in distorted. $\endgroup$
    – HJRW
    Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 22:25
  • $\begingroup$ That should be undistorted. Anyway, mapping tori of suitable automorphisms of $\mathbb{Z}^{n+1}$ should give examples for any $n$. $\endgroup$
    – HJRW
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 16:25

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