scholarly journals The primitivity index function for a free group, and untangling closed curves on hyperbolic surfaces.With the appendix by Khalid Bou–Rabee

2017 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-121
Author(s):  
NEHA GUPTA ◽  
ILYA KAPOVICH
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Growth Function ◽  
Residual Finiteness ◽  
Closed Geodesics ◽  
Hyperbolic Surfaces ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Closed Curves ◽  
Index Function ◽  
Finite Covers

AbstractMotivated by the results of Scott and Patel about “untangling” closed geodesics in finite covers of hyperbolic surfaces, we introduce and study primitivity, simplicity and non-filling index functions for finitely generated free groups. We obtain lower bounds for these functions and relate these free group results back to the setting of hyperbolic surfaces. An appendix by Khalid Bou–Rabee connects the primitivity index functionfprim(n,FN) to the residual finiteness growth function forFN.

scholarly journals On the length of the shortest non-trivial element in the derived and the lower central series

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelrhman Elkasapy ◽  
Andreas Thom
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Lower Central Series ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Central Series ◽  
Residual Finiteness ◽  
Trivial Element ◽  
Nilpotent Residual ◽  
Derived Series

AbstractWe provide upper and lower bounds on the length of the shortest non-trivial element in the derived series and lower central series in the free group on two generators. The techniques are used to provide new estimates on the nilpotent residual finiteness growth and on almost laws for compact groups.

LOWER BOUNDS ON THE GROWTH OF A GROUP ACTING ON THE BINARY ROOTED TREE

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENT BARTHOLDI
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Rooted Tree ◽  
Growth Function ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Grigorchuk Group ◽  
Intermediate Growth

In 1980, Rostislav Grigorchuk constructed an infinite finitely generated torsion 2-group G, called the first Grigorchuk group, and in 1983 showed that it is of intermediate growth, with the following estimates on its growth function γ (See [6]): [Formula: see text] where β= log 32(31)≈ 0.991. He conjectured that the lower bound is actually tight. In this paper we improve the lower bound to [Formula: see text] where α≈0.5157, and thus disproves the conjecture.

scholarly journals Embedding the Picard group inside the class group: the case of $$\mathbb {Q}$$-factorial complete toric varieties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Rossi ◽  
Lea Terracini
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Toric Variety ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Abelian Groups ◽  
Toric Varieties ◽  
Picard Group ◽  
Closed Field ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Free Part ◽  
Canonical Injection

AbstractLet X be a $$\mathbb {Q}$$ Q -factorial complete toric variety over an algebraic closed field of characteristic 0. There is a canonical injection of the Picard group $$\mathrm{Pic}(X)$$ Pic ( X ) in the group $$\mathrm{Cl}(X)$$ Cl ( X ) of classes of Weil divisors. These two groups are finitely generated abelian groups; while the first one is a free group, the second one may have torsion. We investigate algebraic and geometrical conditions under which the image of $$\mathrm{Pic}(X)$$ Pic ( X ) in $$\mathrm{Cl}(X)$$ Cl ( X ) is contained in a free part of the latter group.

scholarly journals The residual finiteness of HNN-extensions and generalized free products of nilpotent groups: a characterization

1992 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Raptis ◽  
D. Varsos
Keyword(s):  
Nilpotent Groups ◽  
Residual Finiteness ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Hnn Extensions ◽  
Base Group ◽  
Generalized Free Products

AbstractWe study the residual finiteness of free products with amalgamations and HNN-extensions of finitely generated nilpotent groups. We give a characterization in terms of certain conditions satisfied by the associated subgroups. In particular the residual finiteness of these groups implies the possibility of extending the isomorphism of the associated subgroups to an isomorphism of their isolated closures in suitable overgroups of the factors (or the base group in case of HNN-extensions).

ALGEBRO-GEOMETRIC INVARIANTS OF GROUPS (THE DIMENSION SEQUENCE OF A REPRESENTATION VARIETY)

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 595-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. LIRIANO ◽  
S. MAJEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Group ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Algebraic Variety ◽  
Commutator Subgroup ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Finitely Generated Group ◽  
Geometric Invariants ◽  
Torus Knot ◽  
Irreducible Components ◽  
Irreducible Variety

If G is a finitely generated group and A is an algebraic group, then RA(G) = Hom (G, A) is an algebraic variety. Define the "dimension sequence" of G over A as Pd(RA(G)) = (Nd(RA(G)), …, N0(RA(G))), where Ni(RA(G)) is the number of irreducible components of RA(G) of dimension i (0 ≤ i ≤ d) and d = Dim (RA(G)). We use this invariant in the study of groups and deduce various results. For instance, we prove the following: Theorem A.Let w be a nontrivial word in the commutator subgroup ofFn = 〈x1, …, xn〉, and letG = 〈x1, …, xn; w = 1〉. IfRSL(2, ℂ)(G)is an irreducible variety andV-1 = {ρ | ρ ∈ RSL(2, ℂ)(Fn), ρ(w) = -I} ≠ ∅, thenPd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G)) ≠ Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)). Theorem B.Let w be a nontrivial word in the free group on{x1, …, xn}with even exponent sum on each generator and exponent sum not equal to zero on at least one generator. SupposeG = 〈x1, …, xn; w = 1〉. IfRSL(2, ℂ)(G)is an irreducible variety, thenPd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G)) ≠ Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)). We also show that if G = 〈x1, . ., xn, y; W = yp〉, where p ≥ 1 and W is a word in Fn = 〈x1, …, xn〉, and A = PSL(2, ℂ), then Dim (RA(G)) = Max {3n, Dim (RA(G′)) +2 } ≤ 3n + 1 for G′ = 〈x1, …, xn; W = 1〉. Another one of our results is that if G is a torus knot group with presentation 〈x, y; xp = yt〉 then Pd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G))≠Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)).

On the Residual Finiteness of Polygonal Products of Nilpotent Groups

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goansu Kim ◽  
C. Y. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Nilpotent Groups ◽  
Vertex Group ◽  
Residual Finiteness ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Residually Finite ◽  
Cyclic Subgroups ◽  
Isolated Subgroup ◽  
Torsion Free

AbstractIn general polygonal products of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups amalgamating cyclic subgroups need not be residually finite. In this paper we prove that polygonal products of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups amalgamating maximal cyclic subgroups such that the amalgamated cycles generate an isolated subgroup in the vertex group containing them, are residually finite. We also prove that, for finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups, if the subgroups generated by the amalgamated cycles have the same nilpotency classes as their respective vertex groups, then their polygonal product is residually finite.

scholarly journals An uncountable family of finitely generated residually finite groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hip Kuen Chong ◽  
Daniel T. Wise
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Finite Groups ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Residually Finite ◽  
Uncountable Family ◽  
Residually Finite Groups ◽  
Rank 2

Abstract We study a family of finitely generated residually finite groups. These groups are doubles F 2 * H F 2 F_{2}*_{H}F_{2} of a rank-2 free group F 2 F_{2} along an infinitely generated subgroup 𝐻. Varying 𝐻 yields uncountably many groups up to isomorphism.

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