Verbal subgroups of hyperbolic groups have infinite width.

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDU034MaRDI QIDQ2922852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexei Myasnikov, Andrey Nikolaev

Publication date 15 October 2014

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3719

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsrelatively hyperbolic groupswidth of verbal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a non-elementary hyperbolic group. Let $w$ be a group word such that the set $w[G]$ of all its values in $G$ does not coincide with $G$ or 1. We show that the width of verbal subgroup $w(G)=<w[G]>$ is infinite. That is, there is no such $linmathbbZ$ that any $ginw(G)$ can be represented as a product of $lel$ values of $w$ and their inverses.

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