Hydra group doubles are not residually finite.

DOI10.1515/GCC-2016-0015zbMATH Open1352.20032arXiv1507.02554OpenAlexW2963063564MaRDI QIDQ338841FDOQ338841

Authors: Kristen Pueschel 

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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