Small cancellation groups and translation numbers

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-97-01653-XMaRDI QIDQ4336544zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich

Publication date 13 May 1997

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9611203

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsequations over groupssmall cancellation groupsfinite generating setstranslation numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: In this paper we prove that C(4)-T(4)-P, C(3)-T(6)-P and C(6)-P small cancellation groups are translation dis crete in the strongest possible sense and that in these groups for any $g$ and any $n$ there is an algorithm deciding whether or not the equation $x^n=g$ has a solution. There is also an algorithm for calculating for each $g$ the maximum $n$ such that $g$ is an $n$-th power of some element. We also note that these groups cannot contain isomorphic copies of the gr oup of $p$-adic fractions and so in particular of the group of rational numbers. Besides we show that for C(4)-T(4) and C(3)-T(6) groups all translation numbers are rational and have bounded denominators.

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