Irrational stable commutator length in finitely presented groups.

DOI10.3934/JMD.2008.2.499zbMATH Open1151.20027arXiv0710.0026OpenAlexW2963323441MaRDI QIDQ950641FDOQ950641

Dongping Zhuang

Publication date: 30 October 2008

Published in: Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give examples of finitely presented groups containing elements with irrational (in fact, transcendental) stable commutator length, thus answering in the negative a question of M. Gromov. Our examples come from 1-dimensional dynamics, and are related to the generalized Thompson groups studied by M. Stein, I. Liousse and others.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0026

zbMATH Keywords

products of commutatorsfinitely presented groupsstable commutator lengthsgeneralized Thompson groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Commutator calculus (20F12)

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