Divergence of finitely presented groups (Q2076075)
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Divergence of finitely presented groups (English)
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18 February 2022
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Summary: We construct families of finitely presented groups exhibiting new divergence behavior; we obtain divergence functions of the form \(r^{\alpha}\) for a dense set of exponents \(\alpha \in [2,\infty)\) and \(r^n \log (r)\) for integers \(n \geq 2\). The same construction also yields examples of finitely presented groups which contain Morse elements that are not contracting.
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group divergence
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geodesic divergence
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Morse element
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contracting element
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