 Subgroup distortion (source code)

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= Subgroup distortion

For a finitely generated subgroup $H\leq G$, subgroup distortion compares the intrinsic word length $|h|_H$ with the ambient word length $|h|_G$. The subgroup is undistorted exactly when its inclusion is a <quasi-isometric embedding>.

This is the subgroup word-metric instance of <distortion (mathematics)>.

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