Virtual geometricity is rare

DOI10.1112/S1461157015000108MaRDI QIDQ2942133zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christopher H. Cashen, Jason Fox Manning

Publication date 26 August 2015

Published in LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7834

zbMATH Keywords

free grouprandom multiwordvirtual geometricity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: We present the results of computer experiments suggesting that the probability that a random multiword in a free group is virtually geometric decays to zero exponentially quickly in the length of the multiword. We then prove this fact.

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