Test elements in torsion-free hyperbolic groups.

zbMATH Open1262.20047arXiv1202.3939MaRDI QIDQ713058FDOQ713058

Authors: Daniel Groves 

Publication date: 25 October 2012

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that in a torsion-free hyperbolic group, an element is a test element if and only if it is not contained in a proper retract.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3939

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zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsendomorphismstest elementshyperbolic groupsproper retracts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

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