A QUASI-ISOMETRY INVARIANT LOOP SHORTENING PROPERTY FOR GROUPS

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (08) ◽  
pp. 1243-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN G. BRICK ◽  
JON M. CORSON ◽  
DOHYOUNG RYANG
Keyword(s):  
Isoperimetric Inequality ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Cayley Graphs ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Quadratic Isoperimetric Inequality ◽  
Finitely Presented

We first introduce a loop shortening property for metric spaces, generalizing the property considered by M. Elder on Cayley graphs of finitely generated groups. Then using this metric property, we define a very broad loop shortening property for finitely generated groups. Our definition includes Elder's groups, and unlike his definition, our property is obviously a quasi-isometry invariant of the group. Furthermore, all finitely generated groups satisfying this general loop shortening property are also finitely presented and satisfy a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. Every CAT(0) cubical group is shown to have this general loop shortening property.

ROAD TRIPS IN GEODESIC METRIC SPACES AND GROUPS WITH QUADRATIC ISOPERIMETRIC INEQUALITIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (06) ◽  
pp. 1250050
Author(s):  
RACHEL BISHOP-ROSS ◽  
JON M. CORSON
Keyword(s):  
Isoperimetric Inequality ◽  
Geometric Property ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Road Trip ◽  
The Road ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Convex Metric Spaces ◽  
Geodesic Metric ◽  
Quadratic Isoperimetric Inequality ◽  
Finitely Presented

We introduce a property of geodesic metric spaces, called the road trip property, that generalizes hyperbolic and convex metric spaces. This property is shown to be invariant under quasi-isometry. Thus, it leads to a geometric property of finitely generated groups, also called the road trip property. The main result is that groups with the road trip property are finitely presented and satisfy a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. Examples of groups with the road trip property include hyperbolic, semihyperbolic, automatic and CAT(0) groups.

scholarly journals COARSE COHERENCE OF METRIC SPACES AND GROUPS AND ITS PERMANENCE PROPERTIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-433
Author(s):  
BORIS GOLDFARB ◽  
JONATHAN L. GROSSMAN
Keyword(s):  
Metric Spaces ◽  
General Context ◽  
Metric Geometry ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Coherence Property ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Permanence Property ◽  
Permanence Properties ◽  
New Framework

We introduce properties of metric spaces and, specifically, finitely generated groups with word metrics, which we call coarse coherence and coarse regular coherence. They are geometric counterparts of the classical algebraic notion of coherence and the regular coherence property of groups defined and studied by Waldhausen. The new properties can be defined in the general context of coarse metric geometry and are coarse invariants. In particular, they are quasi-isometry invariants of spaces and groups. The new framework allows us to prove structural results by developing permanence properties, including the particularly important fibering permanence property, for coarse regular coherence.

Hierarchy for groups acting on hyperbolic ℤn-spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Andrei-Paul Grecianu ◽  
Alexei Myasnikov ◽  
Denis Serbin
Keyword(s):  
Abelian Group ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Free Groups ◽  
Lexicographic Order ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

In [A.-P. Grecianu, A. Kvaschuk, A. G. Myasnikov and D. Serbin, Groups acting on hyperbolic [Formula: see text]-metric spaces, Int. J. Algebra Comput. 25(6) (2015) 977–1042], the authors initiated a systematic study of hyperbolic [Formula: see text]-metric spaces, where [Formula: see text] is an ordered abelian group, and groups acting on such spaces. The present paper concentrates on the case [Formula: see text] taken with the right lexicographic order and studies the structure of finitely generated groups acting on hyperbolic [Formula: see text]-metric spaces. Under certain constraints, the structure of such groups is described in terms of a hierarchy (see [D. T. Wise, The Structure of Groups with a Quasiconvex Hierarchy[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]AMS-[Formula: see text], Annals of Mathematics Studies (Princeton University Press, 2021)]) similar to the one established for [Formula: see text]-free groups in [O. Kharlampovich, A. G. Myasnikov, V. N. Remeslennikov and D. Serbin, Groups with free regular length functions in [Formula: see text], Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012) 2847–2882].

scholarly journals Linear and projective boundaries in HNN-extensions and distortion phenomena

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Krön ◽  
Jörg Lehnert ◽  
Maya Stein
Keyword(s):  
Cayley Graphs ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Hnn Extensions

AbstractLinear and projective boundaries of Cayley graphs were introduced in [Glasg. Math. J. (2014), DOI 10.1017/S0017089514000512] as quasi-isometry invariant boundaries of finitely generated groups. They consist of forward orbitsWe show that for all finitely generated groups, the distance between the antipodal pointsWe also exhibit a group with elements

scholarly journals Groups with a quotient that contains the original group as a direct factor

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Hirshon ◽  
David Meier
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Normal Subgroups ◽  
Direct Factor ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Finitely Generated Group ◽  
Finitely Presented Group ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Original Group ◽  
Hopfian Group ◽  
Finitely Presented

We prove that given a finitely generated group G with a homomorphism of G onto G × H, H non-trivial, or a finitely generated group G with a homomorphism of G onto G × G, we can always find normal subgroups N ≠ G such that G/N ≅ G/N × H or G/N ≅ G/N × G/N respectively. We also show that given a finitely presented non-Hopfian group U and a homomorphism φ of U onto U, which is not an isomorphism, we can always find a finitely presented group H ⊇ U and a finitely generated free group F such that φ induces a homomorphism of U * F onto (U * F) × H. Together with the results above this allows the construction of many examples of finitely generated groups G with G ≅ G × H where H is finitely presented. A finitely presented group G with a homomorphism of G onto G × G was first constructed by Baumslag and Miller. We use a slight generalisation of their method to obtain more examples of such groups.

scholarly journals An intermediate quasi-isometric invariant between subexponential asymptotic dimension growth and Yu's property A

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 909-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izhar Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Asymptotic Dimension ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Property A ◽  
Large Depth ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups

We present a new quasi-isometric invariant for metric spaces that we name asymptotically large depth. For finitely generated groups we show that this invariant implies Yu's property A and is implied by subexponential asymptotic dimension growth.

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