Lacunary hyperbolic groups. With an appendix by Michael Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner.

DOI10.2140/gt.2009.13.2051zbMath1243.20056MaRDI QIDQ1016798

Denis V. Osin, Mark V. Sapir, Alexander Yu. Ol'shanskii

Publication date: 14 May 2009

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2009.13.2051

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic cones; finitely generated groups; Cayley graphs; fundamental groups; direct limits; cut points; small cancellation presentations; Gromov hyperbolic groups; lacunary hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F50: Periodic groups; locally finite groups

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups

20F06: Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams