Metric behaviour of the Magnus embedding.

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-9969-ZMaRDI QIDQ2349876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew W. Sale

Publication date 18 June 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5343

zbMATH Keywords

compression exponentsfree solvable groupsgeometric group theoryMagnus embeddingword metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: The classic Magnus embedding is a very effective tool in the study of abelian extensions of a finitely generated group $G$, allowing us to see the extension as a subgroup of a wreath product of a free abelian group with $G$. In particular, the embedding has proved to be useful when studying free solvable groups. An equivalent geometric definition of the Magnus embedding is constructed and it is used to show that it is 2-bi-Lipschitz, with respect to an obvious choice of generating sets. This is then applied to obtain a non-zero lower bound on $L_p$ compression exponents in free solvable groups.

Review text

Let \(N\) be a normal subgroup of a free group \(F\) of rank \(r\) and \(N'\) its derived subgroup. The Magnus embedding expresses \(F/N'\) as a subgroup of the wreath product \(\mathbb Z^r\wr F/N\). The author gives a geometric definition for the Magnus embedding with which he shows: Theorem 1. The Magnus embedding \(\varphi\colon F/N'\to\mathbb Z^r\wr F/N\) is 2-bi-Lipschitz for an appropriate choice of word metrics. As an application the author shows a non-zero lower bound on \(L_p\) compression exponents in free solvable groups.

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