Two-generator one-relator groups and marked polytopes

DOI10.5802/AIF.3325arXiv1501.03489MaRDI QIDQ6258136FDOQ6258136

Publication date: 14 January 2015

Abstract: We use Fox calculus to assign a marked polytope to a `nice' group presentation with two generators and one relator. Relating the marked vertices to Novikov-Sikorav homology we show that they determine the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant of the group. Furthermore we show that in many cases the marked polytope is an invariant of the underlying group and that in those cases the marked polytope also determines the minimal complexity of all the associated HNN-splittings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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