Undistorted solvable linear groups

Herbert Abels, Roger Alperin
2011 Transactions of the American Mathematical Society  
We discuss distortion of solvable linear groups over a locally compact field and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a subgroup to be undistorted when the field is of characteristic zero.
doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-2011-05237-2 fatcat:lskexx3yznc4zpju2vmib53w74