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We determine the structure of finitely generated residually finite groups in which the number of subgroups of each finite indexn is bounded by a fixed power ofn.
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To John Thompson, an inspiration to group theory, on his being awarded the Wolf Prize
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Lubotzky, A., Mann, A. & Segal, D. Finitely generated groups of polynomial subgroup growth. Israel J. Math. 82, 363–371 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02808118
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