Valuations, completions, and hyperbolic actions of metabelian groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Valuations, completions, and hyperbolic actions of metabelian groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 1543.20047
author: Carolyn R. Abbott
author: Sahana H. Balasubramanya
author: Alexander J. Rasmussen
published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series
publication date: 2024-06-24T00:00:00Z
review text: The main theorems of the paper under review (Theorems 1.1 and 1.2) reduce the problem of classifying hyperbolic structures of \textit{abelian-by-cyclic} groups (that is, groups isomorphic to a semidirect product of the form \(A\rtimes \mathbb Z\) for some finitely generated, torsion-free abelian group~\(A\)) based on admissible matrices \(\gamma\) to the following ones: computing the invariant subspaces of~\(\gamma\) and computing the prime factorization of the characteristic polynomial of \(\gamma\) in the formal power series ring~\(\mathbb Zx\). The former is straightforward using Jordan normal forms, while the latter can be algorithmically solved. The authors show how to use the main results of the paper to classify the hyperbolic actions of a number of groups, among which the lamplighter groups (Section 5.1) and the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups (Section 5.2.1).\N\NRecall that for any abelian-by-cyclic group \(G\), there is an endomorphism \(\gamma_G\in\operatorname{M}_n(\mathbb Z)\) of \(\mathbb Z^n\) with \(\operatorname{det}(\gamma_G)\neq0\) and \(G=\langle \mathbb Z^n,t\,:\, tzt^{-1}=\gamma_G(z),\,\forall z\in\mathbb Z^n\rangle\).
reviewed by: M. Trombetti
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E08
zbMATH DE Number: 7870400
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic group
zbMATH Keywords: abelian-by-cyclic group
zbMATH Keywords: Baumslag-Solitar group
zbMATH Keywords: lamplighter group
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1112/JLMS.12916
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7870400