Computing JSJ decompositions of hyperbolic groups

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12059MaRDI QIDQ4576152zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benjamin Barrett

Publication date 12 July 2018

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00652

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: We present an algorithm that computes Bowditch's canonical JSJ decomposition of a given one-ended hyperbolic group over its virtually cyclic subgroups. The algorithm works by identifying topological features in the boundary of the group. As a corollary we also show how to compute the JSJ decomposition of such a group over its virtually cyclic subgroups with infinite centre. We also give a new algorithm that determines whether or not a given one-ended hyperbolic group is virtually fuchsian. Our approach uses only the geometry of large balls in the Cayley graph and avoids Makanin's algorithm.

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