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Subgroup distortion of 3-manifold groups

Group Theory 2020-02-13 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we compute the subgroup distortion of all finitely generated subgroups of all finitely generated 3-manifold groups, and the subgroup distortion in this case can only be linear, quadratic, exponential and double exponential. It turns out that the subgroup distortion of a subgroup of a 3-manifold group is closely related to the separability of this subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12253,
  title  = {Subgroup distortion of 3-manifold groups},
  author = {Hoang Thanh Nguyen and Hongbin Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12253},
  year   = {2020}
}

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To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc

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