The Dehn function of PSL₂(Z[1/p]).

DOI10.1023/B:GEOM.0000006508.01626.A4MaRDI QIDQ1421760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jennifer Taback

Publication date 3 February 2004

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302191

zbMATH Keywords

asynchronous combingsDehn functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We show that PSL(2,Z[1/p]) admits a combing with bounded asynchronous width, and use this combing to show that PSL(2,Z[1/p]) has an exponential Dehn function. As a corollary, PSL(2,Z[1/p]) has solvable word problem and is not an automatic group.

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