Limits of Baumslag-Solitar groups and dimension estimates in the space of marked groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/165MaRDI QIDQ454402zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Luc Guyot, Yves Stalder

Publication date 1 October 2012

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5371

zbMATH Keywords

Baumslag-Solitar groupsconjugacy problemHausdorff dimensionlimits of groupsspace of marked pointsTuring degreestwisted conjugacy classesword problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We prove that the limits of Baumslag-Solitar groups which we previously studied are non-linear hopfian C*-simple groups with infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes. We exhibit infinite presentations for these groups, classify them up to group isomorphism, describe their automorphisms and discuss the word and conjugacy problems. Finally, we prove that the set of these groups has non-zero Hausforff dimension in the space of marked groups on two generators.

Review text

The paper studies several natural and interesting questions about the groups which are limits of Baumslag-Solitar groups \(B(m,n)\), denoted by \(\overline{BS}(m,\xi)\), as presented by \textit{Y. Stalder} [Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. - Simon Stevin 13, No. 2, 221-233 (2006; Zbl 1148.20018)]. Here \(\xi\) is an \(m\)-adic integer.NEWLINENEWLINE They exhibit infinite presentations of these groups, classify them up to isomorphism, describe their automorphisms, discuss the word and conjugacy problem, and show the non-vanishing of the Hausdorff dimension in the space of marked groups on two generators. Also it is shown that they are non-linear Hopfian \(C^*\)-simple groups with infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes. One relevant step to obtain the results is the result that these groups are HNN extensions of a free Abelian group of infinite countable rank where the conjugated subgroups are also free Abelian groups of infinite countable rank. This is Theorem A.NEWLINENEWLINE To illustrate in more detail some of the results, let \(\mathbb G_2\) be the class of marked groups on \(2\) generators. They showNEWLINENEWLINE Theorem C. Let \(m,m'\in\mathbb Z\setminus\{0\}\) and let \(\xi\in\mathbb Z_m\), \(\xi'\in\mathbb Z_{m'}\). Then \(\overline{BS}(m,\xi)\) is abstractly isomorphic to \(\overline{BS}(m',\xi')\) if and only if there is \(\varepsilon\in\{\pm 1\}\) and \(d\in\mathbb N\) such that \(m=\varepsilon m'\), \(d=\gcd(m,\xi)=\gcd(m',\xi')\) and the \(m\)-adic numbers \(\xi/d\), \(\varepsilon\xi'/d\) project onto the same element of \(\mathbb Z_{m/d}\) via the canonical map \(\mathbb Z_m\to\mathbb Z_{m/d}\).NEWLINENEWLINE Corollary 6.6. The Hausdorff dimension of \(\mathbb G_2\) with respect to \(d(.,.)\) satisfies \(\dim_H(\mathbb G_2)\geq\log(2)/6\). In particular, the Hausdorff dimension of \(\mathbb G_2\) with respect to any equivalent Hölder matrix does not vanish.

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• Two examples related to the twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory for infinitely generated groups
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• Estimates of Minkowski dimensions in the space of marked groups.
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