The loop shortening property and almost convexity.

DOI10.1023/B:GEOM.0000006500.20513.D2zbMATH Open1038.20027arXivmath/0611877OpenAlexW2014915809MaRDI QIDQ1421745FDOQ1421745

Authors: Murray Elder 

Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce the "loop shortening property" and the "basepoint loop shortening property" for finitely generated groups, and examine their relation to quadratic isoperimetric functions and almost convexity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611877

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphfinitely generated groupsisoperimetric functionsHNN extensionsquadratic Dehn functionsalmost convex groupsfalsification by fellow traveler propertyloop shortening property

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) Geometric group theory (20F65)

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