The girth alternative for mapping class groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/223zbMath1323.20034arXiv1105.5422MaRDI QIDQ2016101

Kei Nakamura

Publication date: 19 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5422

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groups; mapping class groups; girth of Cayley graphs; virtually free-Abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

05C25: Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.)

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

57M60: Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions

20E26: Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups

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