nLab geometric group theory

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Within group theory, geometric group theory studies groups by equipping them with a metric and thus regarding them as metric spaces.

For finitely generated groups this is typically done by regarding the group’s elements as the vertices of a graph – the Cayley graph – whose edges connect elements related by multiplication with a generator. The corresponding graph distance then equips the group with a metric.

The methods of geometric group theory overlap with kernel methods in machine learning.

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