%0 Journal Article %T Negative type functions on groups with polynomial growth %A Fabio Cipriani %A Jean-Luc Sauvageot %J Mathematics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X The aim of this work is to show that on a locally compact, second countable, compactly generated group $G$ with polynomial growth and homogeneous dimension $d_h$, there exist a continuous, proper, negative definite function $\ell$ with polynomial growth dimension $d_\ell$ arbitrary close to $d_h$. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02681v1