Infinite presentability of groups and condensation

DOI10.1017/S1474748013000327MaRDI QIDQ2921051zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luc Guyot, Ralph Strebel, Robert Bieri, Yves Cornulier

Publication date 30 September 2014

Published in Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0271

zbMATH Keywords

Abels groupCantor-Bendixson rankcondensation groupinfinitely presented metabelian groupinvariant sigmaspace of marked groupsThompson's group \(F\)

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) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

Abstract: We describe various classes of infinitely presented groups that are condensation points in the space of marked groups. A well-known class of such groups consists of finitely generated groups admitting an infinite minimal presentation. We introduce here a larger class of condensation groups, called infinitely independently presentable groups, and establish criteria which allow one to infer that a group is infinitely independently presentable. In addition, we construct examples of finitely generated groups with no minimal presentation, among them infinitely presented groups with Cantor-Bendixson rank 1, and we prove that every infinitely presented metabelian group is a condensation group.

Review text

The authors study finitely generated groups \(G\) from the point of view how they sit in the space of marked groups and similar spaces, with respect to the Chabauty topology. They relate this to group theoretical propeties of \(G\). One focus of the paper is the maximal perfect subset of these spaces, called the set of condensation points. Here, the term perfect is meant in the sense of topology, i.e. a space \(X\) is called perfect if every point of \(X\) is an accumulation point of \(X\). For the spaces under consideration, the set of condensation points is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. The authors describe various classes of groups that are condensation points, in terms of properties of their (infinite) presentations. They prove that every finitely generated infinitely presented metabelian group is a condensation point.

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