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Large scale properties of groups; growth functions; Dehn functions; small cancellation properties; hyperbolicity and CAT(0); actions and representations; combinatorial group theory; presentations

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Can a group be a union of finitely many subgroups of infinite index?

It may well be a lot easier than this, but it follows from the answer to the weaker question Can a group be a finite union of (left) cosets of infinite-index subgroups? that it's not possible.
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Is the following module over a group ring necessarily infinitely generated?

If $\Gamma$ acts $2$-transitively on an infinite set $X$, then the permutation module $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ will be a counterexample. For example, take an action of the free group of rank $2$ on a countabl …
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Number of orbits for abelian group actions

You could take $G=\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}$, $X=G$ with the regular action, and $Y$ the disjoint union of two copies of $X$, and let $\{G_i\}$ be the family of cyclic subgroups of $G$.
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