Hyperbolic groups and their quotients of bounded exponents

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01510-3zbMath0876.20023MaRDI QIDQ4889997

Sergei V. Ivanov, Alexander Yu. Ol'shanskii

Publication date: 23 November 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

finite subgroups; subgroups of finite index; finitely presented groups; Burnside problem; torsion-free hyperbolic groups; word problems; conjugacy problems; restricted Burnside problem; groups of even exponent; subgroups generated by \(n\)th powers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F50: Periodic groups; locally finite groups

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

20E15: Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

20F06: Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams

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