Metric properties of Diestel-Leader groups.

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1370870377MaRDI QIDQ357526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Melanie Stein, Jennifer Taback

Publication date 30 July 2013

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4199, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1370870377

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsfinitely generated groupsgenerating setsword lengthsautomata groupsfinitely presented groupsself-similar groupsdead-end elementsDiestel-Leader graphsDiestel-Leader groupslamplighter groupsproducts of trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) 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) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate metric properties of the groups $Gamm{a}_d(q)$ whose Cayley graphs are the Diestel-Leader graphs $D{L}_d(q)$ with respect to a given generating set $S_{d,q}$. These groups provide a geometric generalization of the family of lamplighter groups, whose Cayley graphs with respect to a certain generating set are the Diestel-Leader graphs $D{L}_2(q)$. Bartholdi, Neuhauser and Woess in cite{BNW} show that for $dgeq3$, $Gamm{a}_d(q)$ is of type $F_{d-1}$ but not $F_d$. We show below that these groups have dead end elements of arbitrary depth with respect to the generating set $S_{d,q}$, as well as infinitely many cone types and hence no regular language of geodesics. These results are proven using a combinatorial formula to compute the word length of group elements with respect to $S_{d,q}$ which is also proven in the paper and relies on the geometry of the Diestel-Leader graphs.

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