Simplicial complexity of surface groups

DOI10.1017/PRM.2019.67MaRDI QIDQ4965390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugenio Borghini, Elias Gabriel Minian

Publication date 1 March 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01667

zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexitysurface groupssystolic area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: The simplicial complexity is an invariant for finitely presentable groups that was recently introduced by Babenko, Balacheff and Bulteau to study systolic area. The simplicial complexity $kappa(G)$ was proved to be a good approximation of the systolic area $sigma(G)$ for large values of $kappa(G)$. In this paper we compute the simplicial complexity of all surface groups (both in the orientable and in the non-orientable case). This settles a problem raised by Babenko, Balacheff and Bulteau. We also prove that $kappa(GastmathbbZ)=kappa(G)$ for any surface group $G$. This provides the first partial evidence in favor of the conjecture of the stability of the simplicial complexity under free product with free groups. The general stability problem, both for simplicial complexity and for systolic area, remains open.

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