Hydra group doubles are not residually finite.

DOI10.1515/GCC-2016-0015MaRDI QIDQ338841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kristen Pueschel

Publication date 7 November 2016

Published in Groups - Complexity - Cryptology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02554

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented residually finite groupsgroups with large Dehn functionshydra groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: In 2013, Kharlampovich, Myasnikov, and Sapir constructed the first examples of finitely presented residually finite groups with large Dehn functions. Given any recursive function $f$, they produce a finitely presented residually finite group with Dehn function dominating $f$. There are no known elementary examples of finitely presented residually finite groups with super-exponential Dehn function. Dison and Riley's hydra groups can be used to construct a sequence of groups for which the Dehn function of the k-th group is equivalent to the k-th Ackermann function. Kharlampovich, Myasnikov, and Sapir asked whether or not these groups are residually finite. We show that these constructions do not produce residually finite groups.

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