Random quotients of the modular group are rigid and essentially incompressible

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2009.019MaRDI QIDQ3619634zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Paul E. Schupp

Publication date 8 April 2009

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604343

zbMATH Keywords

modular grouprandom factor groupsrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Abstract: We show that for any positive integer $mge1$, $m$-relator quotients of the modular group $M=PSL(2,mathbbZ)$ generically satisfy a very strong Mostow-type emph{isomorphism rigidity}. We also prove that such quotients are generically "essentially incompressible". By this we mean that their "absolute $T$-invariant", measuring the smallest size of any possible finite presentation of the group, is bounded below by a function which is almost linear in terms of the length of the given presentation. We compute the precise asymptotics of the number $I_m(n)$ of emph{isomorphism types} of $m$-relator quotients of $M$ where all the defining relators are cyclically reduced words of length $n$ in $M$. We obtain other algebraic results and show that such quotients are complete, Hopfian, co-Hopfian, one-ended, word-hyperbolic groups.

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