A characterisation of large finitely presented groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2005.03.004MaRDI QIDQ556975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Lackenby

Publication date 23 June 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403129, https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fe7ce7bd-7d4d-4db9-9d9a-3b6f886dbc8c

zbMATH Keywords

subgroups of finite indexnumbers of generatorsfinitely presented groupslarge groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Other classes of groups defined by subgroup chains (20F22)

Abstract: A group is known as `large' if some finite index subgroup admits a surjective homomorphism onto a non-abelian free group. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a finitely presented group to be large, in terms of the existence of a normal series where successive quotients are finite abelian groups with sufficiently large rank and order. The proof of this result involves an analysis of the geometry and topology of finite Cayley graphs. Theorems of Baumslag and Pride, and their extensions by Gromov and Stohr, on groups with more generators than relations, follow immediately.

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