Annular Dehn functions of groups

DOI10.1017/S0004972700032433MaRDI QIDQ4236673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen G. Brick, Jon Michael Corson

Publication date 6 September 2000

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0004972700032433

zbMATH Keywords

annular Dehn functions on groupsconjugacy problemfinitely presented groupsfree products with amalgamationHNN extensionswidth functionsword problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Review text

The (ordinary) Dehn function of a finitely presented group \(G\) or its two-complex \(K\) measures the areas of singular disks in \(K\) in terms of the lengths of the boundary curves. It is independent (up to equivalence) of the presentation of \(G\). The word problem in \(G\) is solvable if and only if the Dehn function of \(G\) is recursive. The authors define an annular Dehn function, which measures the areas of singular annuli in \(K\) in terms of the lengths of the boundary curves, and show that it is independent (up to equivalence) of the presentation of \(G\). The conjugacy problem in \(G\) is solvable if and only if the annular Dehn function of \(G\) is recursive. The authors introduce the annular width function and obtain bounding relationships between the Dehn function, the annular Dehn function, and the annular width function. Upper bounds for the annular Dehn and width functions of direct products, free products, free products with amalgamations and HNN extensions over finite subgroups are obtained in terms of the annular Dehn and width functions of their factors.

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