Stable length in stable groups
classification
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groupsstablelengthanalogueandersonargumentbackcertain
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We show that the stable commutator length vanishes for certain groups defined as infinite unions of smaller groups. The argument uses a group-theoretic analogue of the Mazur swindle, and goes back to the works of Anderson, Fisher, and Mather on homeomorphism groups.
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