Virtually free-by-cyclic groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Virtually free-by-cyclic groups
author: Dawid Kielak
author: Marco Linton
published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA
publication date: 2024-10-07T00:00:00Z
review text: A group \(G\) is coherent if its finitely generated subgroups are finitely presented. A result due to \textit{M. Feighn} and \textit{M. Handel} [Ann. Math. (2) 149, No. 3, 1061--1077 (1999; Zbl 0938.20022)], states that free-by-cyclic groups are coherent.\N\NThe main result in the paper under review is a characterization of virtually free-by-cyclic groups among all hyperbolic and virtually compact special groups in terms of rational cohomological dimension \(\mathrm{cd}_{\mathbb{Q}}\) and \(L_{2}\)-Betti numbers \(b^{(2)}_{n}\).\N\NTheorem 1.1: Let \(H\) be a hyperbolic and virtually compact special group. The following are equivalent: \begin{enumerate}\N\item \(\mathrm{cd}_{\mathbb{Q}}(H) \leq 2\) and \(b^{(2)}_{2}(H)=0\); \N\item \(H\) has a finite index subgroup that is a subgroup of a ``finitely generated free''-by-cyclic group; \N\item \(H\) is virtually free-by-cyclic. \end{enumerate}\N\N\textit{D. T. Wise} [The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2021; Zbl 1511.20002)] proved that one-relator groups with torsion are virtually compact special. Combining this with the computation of the \(L^{2}\)-Betti numbers of one-relator groups due to \textit{W. Dicks} and \textit{P. A. Linnell} [Math. Ann. 337, No. 4, 855--874 (2007; Zbl 1190.20021)] and with Theorem 1.1, the authors prove the interesting Corollary 1.2: One-relator groups with torsion are virtually free-by-cyclic.\N\NTheorem 1.1 has many other consequences, among which the reviewer mentions the following. \N\NCorollary 1.4: One-relator groups with negative immersions are virtually free-bycyclic. \N\NCorollary 1.5: Small cancellation one-relator groups are virtually free-by-cyclic, consequently coherent. \N\NCorollary 1.7: Let \(G\) be a hyperbolic and virtually compact special group with \(\mathrm{cd}_{\mathbb{Q}}(G) \leq 2\). If the Gromov boundary \(\partial G\) has conformal dimension less than 2, then \(G\) is virtually free-by-cyclic. \N\NCoroll…
reviewed by: Enrico Jabara
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20J05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F67
zbMATH DE Number: 7921926
zbMATH Keywords: finitely presented group
zbMATH Keywords: coherent group
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic group
zbMATH Keywords: cohomological dimension
zbMATH Keywords: homological methods in group theory
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DOI: 10.1007/S00039-024-00687-6