Computing the Cech cohomology of decomposition spaces

MaRDI QIDQ6294752FDO

Authors Benjamin Barrett

Publication date 3 December 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: A line pattern in a free group $F$ is defined by a malnormal collection of cyclic subgroups. Otal defined a decomposition space $mathcalD$ associated to a line pattern. We provide an algorithm that computes a presentation for the v{C}ech cohomology of $mathcalD$, thought of as a $F$-module. This answers a relative version of a question of Epstein about boundaries of hyperbolic groups.

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