Central extensions of word hyperbolic groups

DOI10.2307/2951827MaRDI QIDQ676111zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter D. Neumann, Lawrence Reeves

Publication date 4 August 1997

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9507201

zbMATH Keywords

biautomatic groupsbounded cocyclescentral extensionsfinitely generated groupsquasi-isometriesweakly bounded cohomology classesword hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Thurston has claimed (unpublished) that central extensions of word hyperbolic groups by finitely generated abelian groups are automatic. We show that they are in fact biautomatic. Further, we show that every 2-dimensional cohomology class on a word hyperbolic group can be represented by a bounded 2-cocycle. This lends weight to the claim of Gromov that for a word hyperbolic group, the cohomology in every dimension is bounded.

Review text

The authors prove that central extensions of word hyperbolic groups by finitely generated abelian groups are biautomatic. The fact that these groups are automatic is an (unpublished) result due to Thurston. The authors prove also that every 2-dimensional cohomology class on a word hyperbolic group can be represented by a bounded cocycle. In the last section of the paper, the authors discuss the relations between various concepts of ``weak boundedness of a 2-cocycle on an arbitrary finitely generated group. These concepts are related to quasi-isometry properties of central extensions. They show that for cohomology classes, the various notions of weak boundedness are equivalent, but it is unknown whether a weakly bounded cohomology class must be bounded.

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