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Systolic groups acting on complexes with no flats are word-hyperbolic

Piotr Przytycki (2007)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We prove that if a group acts properly and cocompactly on a systolic complex, in whose 1-skeleton there is no isometrically embedded copy of the 1-skeleton of an equilaterally triangulated Euclidean plane, then the group is word-hyperbolic. This was conjectured by D. T. Wise.

Testing Cayley graph densities

Goulnara N. Arzhantseva, Victor S. Guba, Martin Lustig, Jean-Philippe Préaux (2008)

Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal

We present a computer-assisted analysis of combinatorial properties of the Cayley graphs of certain finitely generated groups: given a group with a finite set of generators, we study the density of the corresponding Cayley graph, that is, the least upper bound for the average vertex degree (= number of adjacent edges) of any finite subgraph. It is known that an m -generated group is amenable if and only if the density of the corresponding Cayley graph equals to 2 m . We test amenable and non-amenable...

The 4-string braid group B 4 has property RD and exponential mesoscopic rank

Sylvain Barré, Mikaël Pichot (2011)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

We prove that the braid group B 4 on 4 strings, its central quotient B 4 / z , and the automorphism group Aut ( F 2 ) of the free group F 2 on 2 generators, have the property RD of Haagerup–Jolissaint. We also prove that the braid group B 4 is a group of intermediate mesoscopic rank (of dimension 3). More precisely, we show that the above three groups have exponential mesoscopic rank, i.e., that they contain exponentially many large flat balls which are not included in flats.

The abelianization of hypercyclic groups

B. Wehrfritz (2007)

Open Mathematics

Let G be a hypercyclic group. The most substantial results of this paper are the following. a) If G/G′ is 2-divisible, then G is 2-divisible. b) If G/G′ is a 2′-group, then G is a 2′-group. c) If G/G′ is divisible by finite-of-odd-order, then G/V is divisible by finite-of-odd-order, where V is the intersection of the lower central series (continued transfinitely) of O 2′ (G).

The abelianization of the Johnson kernel

Alexandru Dimca, Richard Hain, Stefan Papadima (2014)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We prove that the first complex homology of the Johnson subgroup of the Torelli group T g is a non-trivial, unipotent T g -module for all g 4 and give an explicit presentation of it as a S y m . H 1 ( T g , C ) -module when g 6 . We do this by proving that, for a finitely generated group G satisfying an assumption close to formality, the triviality of the restricted characteristic variety implies that the first homology of its Johnson kernel is a nilpotent module over the corresponding Laurent polynomial ring, isomorphic to the...

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