Virtually Cyclic Groups
A group is called virtually cyclic if it contains a cyclic subgroup of finite index (the number of cosets that the subgroup has). In other words, any element in a virtually cyclic group can be arrived at by applying a member of the cyclic subgroup to a member in a certain finite set. Every cyclic group is virtually cyclic, as is every finite group. It is known that a finitely generated discrete group with exactly two ends is virtually cyclic (for instance the product of Z/n and Z). Every abelian subgroup of a Gromov hyperbolic group is virtually cyclic.
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