REGULAR COCYCLES AND BIAUTOMATIC STRUCTURES

DOI10.1142/S0218196796000167zbMATH Open0928.20028OpenAlexW2145232271MaRDI QIDQ4894094FDOQ4894094

Authors Walter D. Neumann, Lawrence Reeves 

Publication date 12 January 2000

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9411203

zbMATH Keywords

Fuchsian groupsfundamental groupsSeifert fibered 3-manifoldsbiautomatic structuresvirtually central extensions of finitely generated groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: Let $E$ be a virtually central extension of the group $G$ by a finitely generated abelian group $A$. We show that $E$ carries a biautomatic structure if and only if $G$ has a biautomatic structure $L$ for which the cohomology class of the extension is represented by an $L$-regular cocycle. Moreover, a cohomology class is $L$-regular if some multiple of it is or if its restriction to some finite index subgroup is. We also show that the entire second cohomology of a Fuchsian group is regular, so any virtually central extension is biautomatic. In particular, if the fundamental group of a Seifert fibered 3-manifold is not virtually nilpotent then it is biautomatic. ECHLPT had shown automaticity in this case and in an unpublished 1992 preprint Gersten constructed a biautomatic structure for circle bundles over hyperbolic surfaces and asked if the same could be done for these Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.

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