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The verbal width of acylindrically hyperbolic groups is infinite

Group Theory 2019-02-13 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that the verbal width is infinite for acylindrically hyperbolic groups, which include hyperbolic groups, mapping class groups and Out(Fn).

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@article{arxiv.1609.03950,
  title  = {The verbal width of acylindrically hyperbolic groups is infinite},
  author = {Mladen Bestvina and Ken Bromberg and Koji Fujiwara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03950},
  year   = {2019}
}
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