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Limit groups and groups acting freely on R^n-trees

Group Theory 2014-11-11 v5 Geometric Topology Logic

Abstract

We give a simple proof of the finite presentation of Sela's limit groups by using free actions on R^n-trees. We first prove that Sela's limit groups do have a free action on an R^n-tree. We then prove that a finitely generated group having a free action on an R^n-tree can be obtained from free abelian groups and surface groups by a finite sequence of free products and amalgamations over cyclic groups. As a corollary, such a group is finitely presented, has a finite classifying space, its abelian subgroups are finitely generated and contains only finitely many conjugacy classes of non-cyclic maximal abelian subgroups.

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@article{arxiv.math/0306306,
  title  = {Limit groups and groups acting freely on R^n-trees},
  author = {Vincent Guirardel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306306},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol8/paper39.abs.html