Central extensions of word hyperbolic groups

DOI10.2307/2951827zbMath0871.20032arXivmath/9507201MaRDI QIDQ676111

Walter D. Neumann, Lawrence Reeves

Publication date: 4 August 1997

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9507201

zbMATH Keywords

word hyperbolic groups; finitely generated groups; central extensions; quasi-isometries; biautomatic groups; bounded cocycles; weakly bounded cohomology classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20E22: Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups

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