Equivalence of geometric and combinatorial Dehn functions.
Dans cet article, on montre que l’espace des groupes marqués est un sous-espace fermé d’un ensemble de Cantor dont la dimension de Hausdorff est infinie. On prouve que la dimension de Minkowski de cet espace est infinie en exhibant des sous-ensembles de groupes marqués à petite simplification dont les dimensions de Minkowski sont arbitrairement grandes. On donne une estimation des dimensions de Minkowski de sous-espaces de groupes à un relateur. On démontre enfin que les dimensions de Minkowski...
In this paper, we extend to automorphisms of free groups some results and constructions that classically hold for morphisms of the free monoid, i.e., the so-called substitutions. A geometric representation of the attractive lamination of a class of automorphisms of the free group (irreducible with irreducible powers (iwip) automorphisms) is given in the case where the dilation coefficient of the automorphism is a unit Pisot number. The shift map associated with the attractive symbolic lamination...
Let be a surface, let be a subsurface, and let be two positive integers. The inclusion of in gives rise to a homomorphism from the braid group with strings on to the braid group with strings on . We first determine necessary and sufficient conditions that this homomorphism is injective, and we characterize the commensurator, the normalizer and the centralizer of in . Then we calculate the commensurator, the normalizer and the centralizer of in for large surface braid...
Hass, Rubinstein, and Scott showed that every closed aspherical (irreducible) 3-manifold whose fundamental group contains the fundamental group of a closed aspherical surface, is covered by Euclidean space. This theorem does not generalize to higher dimensions. However, we provide geometric tools with which variations of this theorem can be proved in all dimensions.