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Divergence of finitely presented subgroups of CAT(0) groups

Group Theory 2022-03-09 v1

Abstract

We construct families of CAT(0)CAT(0) groups containing finitely presented groups whose divergence functions are of the form rαr^\alpha for a dense set of exponents α[2,)\alpha \in [2,\infty) and rqlog(r)r^q\log(r) for integers q2q \geq 2. The same construction also yields examples of CAT(0)CAT(0) groups containing contracting elements which are not contracting in certain finitely presented subgroups.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15803,
  title  = {Divergence of finitely presented subgroups of CAT(0) groups},
  author = {Noel Brady and Hung Cong Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15803},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

39 pages, 6 figures, and 1 table. The proof of the main divergence theorem in this paper is similar in outline to that in arXiv:2002.03653 but there are significant technical differences