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Finitely generated infinite simple groups of infinite square width and vanishing stable commutator length

Group Theory 2010-09-08 v4

Abstract

It is shown that there exist finitely generated infinite simple groups of infinite commutator width and infinite square width on which there exists no stably unbounded conjugation-invariant norm, and in particular stable commutator length vanishes. Moreover, a recursive presentation of such a group with decidable word and conjugacy problems is constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0909.2294,
  title  = {Finitely generated infinite simple groups of infinite square width and vanishing stable commutator length},
  author = {Alexey Muranov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2294},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

v4: 41 pages, 6 figures rescaled at 120%; references updated, typos corrected, other minor corrections. v3: minor changes to the title, text and figures. v2: 41 pages, 6 figures; correction: Ore's conjecture was proved in 2008; 2 references added. v1: 40 pages, 6 figures