On the wgsc and qsf tameness conditions for finitely presented groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/95zbMATH Open1218.57012arXivmath/0610936OpenAlexW2136780285MaRDI QIDQ990733FDOQ990733

Daniele Ettore Otera, Louis Funar

Publication date: 1 September 2010

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A finitely presented group is weakly geometrically simply connected (wgsc) if it is the fundamental group of some compact polyhedron whose universal covering is wgsc i.e. it has an exhaustion by compact connected and simply connected sub-polyhedra. We show that this condition is almost-equivalent to Brick's qsf property, which amounts to finding an exhaustion approximable by finite simply connected complexes, and also to the tame combability introduced and studied by Mihalik and Tschantz. We further observe that a number of standard constructions in group theory yield qsf groups and analyze specific examples. We show that requiring the exhaustion be made of metric balls in some Cayley complex is a strong constraint, not verified by general qsf groups. In the second part of this paper we give sufficient conditions under which groups which are extensions of finitely presented groups by finitely generated (but infinitely presented) groups are qsf. We prove, in particular, that the finitely presented HNN extension of the Grigorchuk group is qsf.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610936

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zbMATH Keywords

Grigorchuk groupquasi-simple filtrationHNN extensionweak geometric simple connectivitytame combable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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