Existence of limits for products of equal powers

Let GG be a group equipped with the bi-invariant metric norm \\|\cdot\\|. For elements g1,,gnGg_1,\dots,g_n\in G, consider the sequence of normalized norms of products of equal powers. Existence conjecture. Given g1,,gnGg_1,\dots,g_n\in G, the limit

limk1kg1kgnk\lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{1}{k}\|g_1^k\cdots g_n^k\|

exists. The conjecture would imply injectivity of the homomorphisms from the relevant asymptotic completion into directional asymptotic cones; the boundedness assumption on the commutator subgroup provides a sufficient condition for this existence, while the general case is left open.

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Jarek Kędra and Assaf Libman, “Directional asymptotic cones of groups equipped with bi-invariant metrics”, arXiv:2207.12704 (2026).

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