Maximally symmetric trees.

DOI10.1023/A:1019685632755MaRDI QIDQ698128zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lee Mosher, Michah Sageev, Kevin Whyte

Publication date 18 September 2002

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsisometric actionsmaximally symmetric treesmodel geometriesvirtually free groups

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)

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.

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