Nielsen equivalence in small cancellation groups
Group Theory
2015-03-17 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Let be a group given by the presentation [<a_1,...,a_k,b_1,... b_k\,| a_i=u_i(\bar b), b_i=v_i(\bar a) \hbox{for} 1\le i\le k>,] where and where the and are random words. Generically such a group is a small cancellation group and it is clear that and are generating -tuples for . We prove that for generic choices of and the "once-stabilized" tuples and are not Nielsen equivalent in . This provides a counter-example for a Wiegold-type conjecture in the setting of word-hyperbolic groups. We conjecture that in the above construction at least stabilizations are needed to make the tuples and Nielsen equivalent.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.5862,
title = {Nielsen equivalence in small cancellation groups},
author = {Ilya Kapovich and Richard Weidmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5862},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
revised version; 31 pages, 16 figures