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Finite generating sets of relatively hyperbolic groups and applications to geodesic languages

Group Theory 2016-05-27 v3

Abstract

Given a finitely generated relatively hyperbolic group GG, we construct a finite generating set XX of GG such that (G,X)(G,X) has the `falsification by fellow traveler property' provided that the parabolic subgroups {Hω}ωΩ\{H_\omega\}_{\omega\in \Omega} have this property with respect to the generating sets {XHω}ωΩ\{X\cap H_\omega\}_{\omega\in \Omega}. This implies that groups hyperbolic relative to virtually abelian subgroups, which include all limit groups and groups acting freely on Rn\mathbb{R}^n-trees, or geometrically finite hyperbolic groups, have generating sets for which the language of geodesics is regular, and the complete growth series and complete geodesic series are rational. As an application of our techniques, we prove that if each HωH_\omega admits a geodesic biautomatic structure over XHωX\cap H_\omega, then GG has a geodesic biautomatic structure. Similarly, we construct a finite generating set XX of GG such that (G,X)(G,X) has the `bounded conjugacy diagrams' property or the `neighbouring shorter conjugate' property if the parabolic subgroups {Hω}ωΩ\{H_\omega\}_{\omega\in \Omega} have this property with respect to the generating sets {XHω}ωΩ\{X\cap H_\omega\}_{\omega\in \Omega}. This implies that a group hyperbolic relative to abelian subgroups has a generating set for which its Cayley graph has bounded conjugacy diagrams, a fact we use to give a cubic time algorithm to solve the conjugacy problem. Another corollary of our results is that groups hyperbolic relative to virtually abelian subgroups have a regular language of conjugacy geodesics.

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@article{arxiv.1402.2985,
  title  = {Finite generating sets of relatively hyperbolic groups and applications to geodesic languages},
  author = {Yago Antolín and Laura Ciobanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2985},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

44 pages, 8 figures. Version 3. After comments from the referee added

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