On the genus of infinite groups

DOI10.4310/MRL.2012.V19.N3.A8MaRDI QIDQ2391628zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Iain R. Aitchison, Lawrence Reeves

Publication date 5 August 2013

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7016

zbMATH Keywords

genus of a grouppresentation of a groupsingular 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We associate to each finite presentation of a group G a compact CW-complex that is a 3-manifold in the complement of a point, and whose fundamental group is isomorphic to G. We use this complex to define a notion of genus for G and give examples, and also define a notion of `closed group'. A group has genus 0 if and only if it is the fundamental group of a compact orientable 3-manifold.

Review text

The authors associate to each finite presentation of a group \(G\) a compact CW-complex which has fundamental group \(G\) and is a 3-manifold in the complement of a point. Then they use this construction to define the notion of genus for a finitely presented group \(G\), with the property that the genus is zero if and only if \(G\) is the fundamental group of a compact orientable 3-manifold (a group of genus \(g\) can be realized as the fundamental group of a compact orientable 3-manifold with a connected boundary surface of genus \(g\) coned to a point). Using Baumslag-Solitar groups, they show the existence of groups of genus 1, and close by presenting various examples and some questions on the complexity of the calculation of the genus.

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