Embedding free Burnside groups in finitely presented groups.

DOI10.1007/S10711-004-2826-8MaRDI QIDQ2487752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Ivanov

Publication date 8 August 2005

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210276

zbMATH Keywords

Burnside groupsfinitely presented groupsgeneratorsHNN-extensionslocally finite groupsnon-amenable groupsperiodic groupsrelationsvan Kampen diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: We construct an embedding of a free Burnside group $B(m,n)$ of odd $n>2^{48}$ and rank $m>1$ in a finitely presented group with some special properties. The main application of this embedding is an easy construction of finitely presented non-amenable groups without noncyclic free subgroups (which provides a finitely presented counterexample to the von Neumann problem on amenable groups). As another application, we construct weakly finitely presented groups of odd exponent $ngg1$ which are not locally finite.

Review text

The author constructs an embedding of a free Burnside group \(B(m,n)\) of odd exponent \(n>2^{48}\) into a finitely presented group with certain special properties. One application of this embedding is a new simpler construction of finitely presented non-amenable groups without non-cyclic free subgroups. Earlier such groups [which solve Grigorchuk's Problem 8.7 in The Kourovka Notebook (2006; Zbl 1084.20001)] were constructed by \textit{A. Yu. Ol'shanskii} and \textit{M. V. Sapir} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 96, 43--169 (2002; Zbl 1050.20019)] using a different method. Another application is a construction of so-called weakly finitely presented groups of sufficiently large odd exponent \(n\) which are not locally finite. Previously the author constructed weakly finitely presented periodic groups which are not locally finite [Contemp. Math. 296, 139--154 (2002; Zbl 1026.20024)], but those groups were of unbounded exponent. The proofs rely on the author's technique of HNN-extensions for groups of large odd exponent [developed in Math. Appl., Dordr. 555, 39--53 (2003; Zbl 1042.20024)].

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