Fibonacci groups with aspherical presentations

DOI10.1080/00927879808826218MaRDI QIDQ4395744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher P. Chalk

Publication date 6 December 1998

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826218

zbMATH Keywords

Fibonacci groupslocal test for asphericitypresentationsVan Kampen diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

Groups \(F(r,n)\) presented by \(\langle x_1,\dots,x_n\mid w_1,\dots,w_n\rangle\), where \(w_i=x_i\cdots x_{r+i-1}x^{-1}_{r+i}\), \(1\leq i\leq n\), are called Fibonacci groups. The infinite family of groups \(\{F(r,n),F(r+n,n),F(r+2n,n),\dots\}\) is denoted by \(F\{r,n\}\). The author addresses the question which of these groups are finite. Using geometric/diagramatic techniques, he shows that many Fibonacci-groups are aspherical and hence infinite. His work presents true progress on previously known results and reduces the list of Fibonacci groups with unknown orders to the families \(F\{7,5\}\) and \(F\{8,5\}\). The author uses a certain local test for asphericity on Van Kampen diagrams over the presentation given above. This test is based on a variant of the vertex discharging method used in the proof of the 4-colour theorem of Appel and Haken. Asphericity is a central theme in combinatorial group theory and low-dimensional topology and any new asphericity test, different from well known weight or curvature tests, could prove important.

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