Abstract:
This paper gives a negative solution to the problem of Milnor concerning the degrees of growth of groups. The construction also answers a question of Day concerning amenable groups. A number of other results are obtained on residually finite finitely generated infinite 2-groups.
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\by R.~I.~Grigorchuk
\paper Degrees of growth of finitely generated groups, and the theory of invariant means
\jour Math. USSR-Izv.
\yr 1985
\vol 25
\issue 2
\pages 259--300
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