Maximally symmetric trees.

DOI10.1023/A:1019685632755zbMATH Open1053.20027arXivmath/0012004OpenAlexW2998892359MaRDI QIDQ698128FDOQ698128

Authors: Lee Mosher, Michah Sageev, Kevin Whyte 

Publication date: 18 September 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize the ``best model geometries for the class of virtually free groups, and we show that there is a countable infinity of distinct ``best model geometries in an appropriate sense--these are the maximally symmetric trees. The first theorem gives several equivalent conditions on a bounded valence, cocompact tree T without valence 1 vertices saying that T is maximally symmetric. The second theorem gives general constructions for maximally symmetric trees, showing for instance that every virtually free group has a maximally symmetric tree for a model geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012004

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsisometric actionsvirtually free groupsmaximally symmetric treesmodel geometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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