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Effective coherence of groups discriminated by a locally quasi-convex hyperbolic group

Group Theory 2014-12-12 v2

Abstract

We prove that every finitely generated group GG discriminated by a locally quasi-convex torsion-free hyperbolic group Γ\Gamma is effectively coherent: that is, presentations for finitely generated subgroups can be computed from the subgroup generators. We study GG via its embedding into an iterated centralizer extension of Γ\Gamma, and prove that this embedding can be computed. We also give algorithms to enumerate all finitely generated groups discriminated by Γ\Gamma and to decide whether a given group, with decidable word problem, is discriminated by Γ\Gamma. If Γ\Gamma may have torsion, we prove that groups obtained from Γ\Gamma by iterated amalgamated products with virtually abelian groups, over elementary subgroups, are effectively coherent.

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@article{arxiv.1307.6783,
  title  = {Effective coherence of groups discriminated by a locally quasi-convex hyperbolic group},
  author = {Inna Bumagin and Jeremy Macdonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6783},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

35 pages. Updated to include some results when the base group {\Gamma} may have torsion. To appear in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics