On the geometry of van Kampen diagrams of graph products of groups

MaRDI QIDQ6312460zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anthony Genevois

Publication date 14 January 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

Abstract: In this article, we propose a geometric framework dedicated to the study of van Kampen diagrams of graph products of groups. As an application, we find information on the word and the conjugacy problems. The main new result of the paper deals with the computation of conjugacy length functions. More precisely, if $Gamma$ is a finite graph and $mathcalG=G_{u}miduinV(Gamma)$ a collection of finitely generated groups indexed by the vertices of $Gamma$, then ${\displaystyle }$maxlimits_{u in V(Gamma)} mathrm{CLF}_{G_u}(n) leq mathrm{CLF}_{Gamma mathcal{G}}(n) leq (D+1) cdot n + maxlimits_{Delta subset Gamma ext{complete}} sumlimits_{u in V(Delta)} mathrm{CLF}_{G_u}(n)${\displaystyle }$ for every $ngeq1$, where $D$ denotes the maximal diameter of a connected component of the opposite graph $Gamm{a}^{mathrmopp}$. As a consequence, a graph product of groups with linear conjugacy length functions has linear conjugacy length function as well.

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