Translation numbers in negatively curved groups

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(98)00145-XMaRDI QIDQ1971129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksandar Poleksić

Publication date 29 May 2001

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-8641(98)00145-x

zbMATH Keywords

finite state automatafinitely presented groupslanguage of geodesic wordstranslation numbers of elementsword hyperbolic groupsword metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finitely presented group with word metric \(d\). The translation number of an element \(g\) of \(G\) is \[ \tau(g)=\lim_{n\to\infty}{|g^n|\over n}, \] where \(|g|=d(1,g)\). The author presents a short proof of the claim of Gromov that the translation numbers of elements in a word hyperbolic group are rational with bounded denominator. The proof provides a bound on the denominator for all elements in terms of the number of states in the finite state automaton accepting the language of geodesic words.

Recommendations

• A class of finitely generated groups with irrational translation numbers
• Discreteness properties of translation numbers in solvable groups
• Properties of translation numbers in nilpotent groups
• Hyperbolic elements in negatively curved groups
• Translation numbers in a Garside group are rational with uniformly bounded denominators.

Cited in

(7)

• Translation numbers of groups acting on quasiconvex spaces
• Small cancellation groups and translation numbers
• Properties of translation numbers in nilpotent groups
• Discreteness properties of translation numbers in solvable groups
• Diophantine properties of elements of \(SO(3)\)
• Translation lengths in crossing and contact graphs of quasi-median graphs
• Translation numbers in a Garside group are rational with uniformly bounded denominators.

This page was built for publication: Translation numbers in negatively curved groups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1971129)