scholarly journals Rank Gradient andp-gradient of Amalgamated Free Products and HNN Extensions

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 4515-4527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Pappas
Author(s):  
Joan L. Dyer

AbstractA group G is termed conjugacy separable (c.s.) if any pair of distinct conjugacy classes may be mapped to distinct conjugacy classes in some finite epimorph of G. The free product of A and B with cyclic amalgamated subgroup H is shown to be c.s. if A and B are both free, or are both finitely generated nilpotent groups. Further, one-relator groups with nontrivial center and HNN extensions with c.s. base group and finite associated subgroups are also c.s.


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 451-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE DE LA HARPE ◽  
JEAN-PHILIPPE PRÉAUX

We establish sufficient conditions for the C*-simplicity of two classes of groups. The first class is that of groups acting on trees, such as amalgamated free products, HNN-extensions, and their nontrivial subnormal subgroups; for example normal subgroups of Baumslag–Solitar groups. The second class is that of fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds, related to the first class by their Kneser–Milnor and JSJ decompositions. Much of our analysis deals with conditions on an action of a group Γ on a tree T which imply the following three properties: abundance of hyperbolic elements, better called strong hyperbolicity, minimality, both on the tree T and on its boundary ∂T, and faithfulness in a strong sense. An important step in this analysis is to identify automorphisms of T which are slender, namely such that their fixed-point sets in ∂T are nowhere dense for the shadow topology.


Author(s):  
M. Edjvet ◽  
D. L. Johnson

AbstractHere we mean growth in the sense of Milnor and Gromov. After a brief survey of known results, we compute the growth series of the groups, with respect to generators {x, y}. This is done using minimal normal forms obtained by informal use of judiciously chosen rewrite rules. In both of these examples the growth series is a rational function, and we suspect that this is not the case for the Baumslag-Solitar group.


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 111-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS LOHREY ◽  
GÉRAUD SÉNIZERGUES

Several transfer results for rational subsets and finitely generated subgroups of HNN-extensions G = 〈 H,t; t-1 at = φ(a) (a ∈ A) 〉 and amalgamated free products G = H *A J such that the associated subgroup A is finite. These transfer results allow to transfer decidability properties or structural properties from the subgroup H (resp. the subgroups H and J) to the group G.


1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Hannebauer

Let G be a group anda free presentation of G, i.e. a short exact sequence of groups with F free. Conjugation in F induces on = R/R', the abelianized normal subgroup R, the structure of a right G-module (if r∈ R, x∈ F then (r)(xπ) = x-1rxR'). The G-module is called the relation module determined by the presentation (1). For a detailed discussion of this subject we refer to Gruenberg [3].


Author(s):  
E. Raptis ◽  
D. Varsos

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).


2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 869-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN R. BRIDSON

We consider the growth functions βΓ(n) of amalgamated free products Γ = A *C B, where A ≅ B are finitely generated, C is free abelian and |A/C| = |A/B| = 2. For every d ∈ ℕ there exist examples with βΓ(n) ≃ nd+1βA(n). There also exist examples with βΓ(n) ≃ en. Similar behavior is exhibited among Dehn functions.


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