Stable commutator length in word-hyperbolic groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/75zbMath1227.20040arXivmath/0611889MaRDI QIDQ1049913

Koji Fujiwara, Danny Calegari

Publication date: 14 January 2010

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611889

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classes; hyperbolic groups; defects; commutators; mapping class groups; quasimorphisms; stable commutator lengths; symmetric generating sets; scl; accumulation points; Mineyev flow spaces; pleated surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups

20F12: Commutator calculus

Related Items

Failure of separation by quasi-homomorphisms in mapping class groups, Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups., Stable commutator length is rational in free groups, Word length in surface groups with characteristic generating sets

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