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Girth Alternative for HNN Extensions

Group Theory 2023-11-14 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove the Girth Alternative for a sub-class of the HNN extensions of finitely generated groups. We also produce counterexamples to show that beyond our class, the alternative fails in general.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.13326,
  title  = {Girth Alternative for HNN Extensions},
  author = {Azer Akhmedov and Pratyush Mishra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13326},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

We extended one of the main results proving the Girth Alternative for HNN extensions of word hyperbolic groups (instead of HNN extensions of free groups). Several typing errors corrected, remarks added

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