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Growth of groups and graded algebras: Erratum

Nicholas Billington

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 COMMUNICATIONS I N ALGEBRA, 1 3 ( 3 ) , 753-755 (1985)

GROWTH OF GROUPS AND GRADED ALGEBRAS : ERRATUM

Nicholas Billington

Department of Mathematics
La Trobe University
Bundoora
Victoria 3083 Australia

In [litheorem 31 we proposed that the growth,

g(~,~
(') )

of a stratified finitely generated abelian group (G,S) is a rational

function. This is incorrect as it stands : the associated commutative

graded algebra grk(G,S) may not have a rational Hilbert-Poincar6

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series since it may not be Noetherian. This is because grk(G,S) may
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not be finitely generated as a graded algebra if the stratification S

is not defined by length from a finite generating set.

For example, the group Z x Z regarded as the set of

lattice points whose Euclidean coordinates are integers has a

stratification T = (Tn)n20 defined by T = {(x,y) E X x X : - S n}.

The associated graded algebra grk(X X Z,T) is not finitely generated,

-
and the series g(ZxZ (2) is not a rational function; in fact the

problem of determining this series is equivalent to Gauss's problem of

counting the number of lattice points inside the circle with centre at

the origin and radius n. (See [21).

Copyright O 1985 by Marcel Dekker, Inc

754 BILLINGTON

The graded algebra grk(G,S) obtained from a stratified

-
abelian group (G,S) is finitely generated, and so Noetherian, if the

stratification S is defined by length from a finite generating set.

Therefore, that a Noetherian commutative graded algebra has a rational

~ilbert-Poincar6 series leads to the following result, which replaces

theorem 3 in I11 :

PROPOSITION If G is a finitely generated abelian group and S is

a stratification of G defined by length from a finite generating set

then (2) is a rational function.

'(G,s)

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