On the asymptotics of visible elements and homogeneous equations in surface groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/167zbMATH Open1290.20019arXiv1105.2463MaRDI QIDQ1932129FDOQ1932129

Noèlia Viles, Laura Ciobanu, Yago Antolín

Publication date: 17 January 2013

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

Abstract: Let $F$ be a group whose abelianization is $$, $kgeq2.$ An element of $F$ is called visible if its image in the abelianization is visible, that is, the greatest common divisor of its coordinates is 1. In this paper we compute three types of densities, annular, even and odd spherical, of visible elements in surface groups. We then use our results to show that the probability of a homogeneous equation in a surface group to have solutions is neither 0 nor 1, as the lengths of the right- and left-hand side of the equation go to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2463

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic densitiesfree groupssurface groupshomogeneous equationssplit equationsvisible elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70)

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