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Geometric characterizations of virtually free groups

Group Theory 2017-12-05 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Four geometric conditions on a geodesic metric space, which are stronger variants of classical conditions characterizing hyperbolicity, are proved to be equivalent. In the particular case of the Cayley graph of a finitely generated group, it is shown that they characterize virtually free groups.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5400,
  title  = {Geometric characterizations of virtually free groups},
  author = {Vítor Araújo and Pedro V. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5400},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages

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