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Virtual Geometricity is Rare

Group Theory 2019-02-20 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We present the results of computer experiments suggesting that the probability that a random multiword in a free group is virtually geometric decays to zero exponentially quickly in the length of the multiword. We then prove this fact.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1407.7834,
  title  = {Virtual Geometricity is Rare},
  author = {Christopher H. Cashen and Jason F. Manning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7834},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures v2 adds a link to the computer scripts used in the paper; v3 13pages, to appear in LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics

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