The JSJ-decompositions of one-relator groups with torsion.

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0097-1MaRDI QIDQ2634853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan D. Logan

Publication date 10 February 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5357, http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/121498/19/121498.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic groupsJSJ-decompositionsone-relator groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: In this paper we use JSJ-decompositions to formalise a folk conjecture recorded by Pride on the structure of one-relator groups with torsion. We prove a slightly weaker version of the conjecture, which implies that the structure of one-relator groups with torsion closely resemble the structure of torsion-free hyperbolic groups.

Review text

In this paper the following result is proven: Theorem A. Let \(G=\langle X\mid r^n\rangle\) be a one-relator group with torsion which does not admit a free group as a free factor. Then exactly one non-elementary vertex group of the JSJ-decomposition of \(G\) contains torsion. All other non-elementary vertex groups are torsion-free hyperbolic groups. Any edge group is a subgroup of a malnormal infinite cyclic subgroup of \(G\). Two theorems on the structure of two-generator one-relator groups are given. In Theorem 1 the possible JSJ-decompositions of such a group are described and in Theorem 2 it is shown that such a group is either of the form \(\langle a,b\mid [a,b]^n\rangle\) or has virtually cyclic outer automorphism group. In the end examples of one-relator groups with torsion with non-trivial JSJ-decomposition are presented.

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• The outer automorphism groups of two-generator, one-relator groups with torsion
• JSJ decompositions and polytopes for two-generator one-relator groups

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