Groups acting freely on \Lambda-trees

arXiv0911.0209MaRDI QIDQ6216151FDOQ6216151

Authors: Olga Kharlampovich, Alexei Myasnikov, Denis Serbin 

Publication date: 1 November 2009

Abstract: A group is called $Lambda$-free if it has a free Lyndon length function in an ordered abelian group $Lambda$, which is equivalent to having a free isometric action on a $Lambda$-tree. A group has a regular free length function in $Lambda$ if and only if it has a free isometric action on a $Lambda$-tree so that all branch points belong to the orbit of the base point. In this paper we prove that every finitely presented $Lambda$-free group $G$ can be embedded into a finitely presented group with a regular free length function in $Lambda$ so that the length function on $G$ is preserved by the embedding. Next, we prove that every finitely presented group $widetildeG$ with a regular free Lyndon length function in $Lambda$ has a regular free Lyndon length function in ${mathbbR}^n$ ordered lexicographically for an appropriate $n$ and can be obtained from a free group by a series of finitely many HNN-extensions in which associated subgroups are maximal abelian and length isomorphic.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65)

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