Lamplighters, metabelian groups, and horocyclic products

DOI10.4171/LEM/61-3/4-5zbMATH Open1355.20020arXiv1405.1660OpenAlexW2513682666MaRDI QIDQ330029FDOQ330029

Authors: Margarita Amchislavska, Timothy Riley 

Publication date: 24 October 2016

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Bartholdi, Neuhauser and Woess proved that a family of metabelian groups including lamplighters have a striking geometric manifestation as 1-skeleta of horocyclic products of trees. The purpose of this article is to give an elementary account of this result, to widen the family addressed to include the infinite valence case (for instance $mathbbZwrmathbbZ$), and to make the translation between the algebraic and geometric descriptions explicit. In the rank-2 case, where the groups concerned include a celebrated example of Baumslag and Remeslennikov, we give the translation by means of a combinatorial `lamplighter description'. This elucidates our proof in the general case which proceeds by manipulating polynomials. Additionally, we show that the Cayley 2-complex of a suitable presentation of Baumslag and Remeslennikov's example is a horocyclic product of three trees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1660

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zbMATH Keywords

horocyclic productlamplightermetabelian group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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