Distortion element in the automorphism group of a full shift
(2208.00685)Abstract
We show that there is a distortion element in a finitely-generated subgroup $G$ of the automorphism group of the full shift, namely an element of infinite order whose word norm grows polylogarithmically. As a corollary, we obtain a lower bound on the entropy dimension of any subshift containing a copy of $G$, and that a sofic shift's automorphism group contains a distortion element if and only if the sofic shift is uncountable. We obtain also that groups of Turing machines and the higher-dimensional Brin-Thompson groups $mV$ admit distortion elements; in particular, $2V$ (unlike $V$) does not admit a proper action on a CAT$(0)$ cube complex. The distortion element is essentially the SMART machine.
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