Structural stability of free groups

DOI10.1080/00927879808826249MaRDI QIDQ4392648zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alekseĭ Valer'evich Egorov

Publication date 26 May 1999

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826249

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsfree groups of finite rankhyperbolic groupsproximityquasiisometric groupssmall cancellation groupsstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Review text

The author defines the quasiisometry of two finitely generated groups with the aid of two functions mapping each group onto the other and relating the metrics (defined by the length of the words) via two constants \(C\) and \(\lambda\). Then he defines two notions: (structural) proximity and (structural) equivalence of two quasiisometric groups and states that these notions are independent of the choice of generators. Equivalence implies proximity but he proves by a counterexample that the converse is not true. So he defines a finitely generated group \(G\) to be (structurally) stable if proximity of \(G\) with a finitely generated group \(H\) implies equivalence. He states that stability is independent of the choice of generators and that finite groups are stable. The main theorem is that free groups of finite rank are stable. The paper ends with two problems concerning stability of hyperbolic groups, small cancellation groups and fundamental groups of compact Riemannian manifolds and the interaction of stability with traditional finiteness properties. (Also submitted to MR).

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