Groups with small Dehn functions and bipartite chord diagrams.

DOI10.1007/s00039-006-0580-9zbMath1168.20016arXivmath/0411174MaRDI QIDQ866878

Mark V. Sapir, Alexander Yu. Ol'shanskii

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411174

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groups; word lengths; Dehn functions; finite presentations; chord diagrams; multiple HNN extensions of free groups; undecidable conjugacy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

20F06: Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams