A geometric proof that SL₂(Z[t,t^-1]) is not finitely presented.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2006.6.839MaRDI QIDQ863039zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kai-Uwe Bux, Kevin Wortman

Publication date 25 January 2007

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412101

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat-Tits treescontractible complexesdiagonal actionsfiniteness propertiesgeometric group theorygroups of finite homological typeinfinitely presented groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We give a new proof of the theorem of Krstic-McCool from the title. Our proof has potential applications to the study of finiteness properties of other subgroups of SL_2 resulting from rings of functions on curves.

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