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The Banach-Tarski paradox for the hyperbolic plane (II)

Jan Mycielski, Grzegorz Tomkowicz (2013)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

The second author found a gap in the proof of the main theorem in [J. Mycielski, Fund. Math. 132 (1989), 143-149]. Here we fill that gap and add some remarks about the geometry of the hyperbolic plane ℍ².

The Dehn functions of O u t ( F n ) and A u t ( F n )

Martin R. Bridson, Karen Vogtmann (2012)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

For n at least 3, the Dehn functions of O u t ( F n ) and A u t ( F n ) are exponential. Hatcher and Vogtmann proved that they are at most exponential, and the complementary lower bound in the case n = 3 was established by Bridson and Vogtmann. Handel and Mosher completed the proof by reducing the lower bound for n bigger than 3 to the case n = 3 . In this note we give a shorter, more direct proof of this last reduction.

The ratio and generating function of cogrowth coefficients of finitely generated groups

Ryszard Szwarc (1998)

Studia Mathematica

Let G be a group generated by r elements g 1 , , g r . Among the reduced words in g 1 , , g r of length n some, say γ n , represent the identity element of the group G. It has been shown in a combinatorial way that the 2nth root of γ 2 n has a limit, called the cogrowth exponent with respect to the generators g 1 , , g r . We show by analytic methods that the numbers γ n vary regularly, i.e. the ratio γ 2 n + 2 / γ 2 n is also convergent. Moreover, we derive new precise information on the domain of holomorphy of γ(z), the generating function associated...

The rhombic dodecahedron and semisimple actions of Aut(Fₙ) on CAT(0) spaces

Martin R. Bridson (2011)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We consider actions of automorphism groups of free groups by semisimple isometries on complete CAT(0) spaces. If n ≥ 4 then each of the Nielsen generators of Aut(Fₙ) has a fixed point. If n = 3 then either each of the Nielsen generators has a fixed point, or else they are hyperbolic and each Nielsen-generated ℤ⁴ ⊂ Aut(F₃) leaves invariant an isometrically embedded copy of Euclidean 3-space 𝔼³ ↪ X on which it acts as a discrete group of translations with the rhombic dodecahedron as a Dirichlet...

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