Combings of semidirect products and 3-manifold groups

DOI10.1007/BF01895689zbMath0783.20020MaRDI QIDQ1261157

Martin R. Bridson

Publication date: 10 March 1994

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/58125

zbMATH Keywords

normal form; compact 3-manifold; word-hyperbolic group; split extension; asynchronous fellow-traveller property; asynchronously automatic group; asynchronously combable group; exponential isoperimetric inequality; linear isodiametric inequality; Thurston's geometrization conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

20E22: Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

20F34: Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)

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