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Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups

Group Theory 2014-10-01 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let G be a finitely presented group, and G' its commutator subgroup. Let C be the Cayley graph of G' with all commutators in G as generators. Then C is large scale simply connected. Furthermore, if G is a torsion-free nonelementary word-hyperbolic group, C is one-ended. Hence (in this case), the asymptotic dimension of C is at least 2.

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@article{arxiv.0807.4704,
  title  = {Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups},
  author = {Danny Calegari and Dongping Zhuang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4704},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures; version 2 incorporates referee's comments

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