Large scale properties of groups; growth functions; Dehn functions; small cancellation properties; hyperbolicity and CAT(0); actions and representations; combinatorial group theory; presentations
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Can every non-inner automorphism of a group with residually finite outer automorphisms be realised as an non-inner automorphism of a finite quotient?
First some motivation: most proofs that show that the group of outer automorphisms is residually finite do not only show that the subgroup of inner automorphisms is closed in the profinite topology, ...
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Infinite finitely presented simple group (or more generally with trivial profinite completion) that is not amalgamated free product
As is described in the title. Is there a finitely presented group $G$, with trivial profinite completion $\widehat{G}=0$, which is not amalgamated free product?
For example, the famous example Higman ...
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Stable commutator lengths of pseudo-Anosovs
Does anyone have an example of a pseudo-Anosov mapping class for which the stable commutator length is known exactly?
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Non-algebraic quasi-isometric embeddings
What are examples of finitely generated groups $\Gamma$ and $\Lambda$ such that the metric space $\Lambda$ embeds into $\Gamma$ quasi-isometrically but such that $\Lambda$ is very much not a subgroup ...
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Residually finite group surjective to nonresidually finite group with finitely generated kernel
As is described in the title, is there a known example such that there is a surjective homomorphism of groups $$f: G\rightarrow H,$$ with $G$ and $H$ finitely presented, $G$ is residually finite, and $...
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Automorphism groups of cocompact Fuchsian groups as mapping class groups
Let $\Gamma$ be a cocompact Fuchsian group. So it has presentation $$\langle x_1,y_1, \dots, x_g,y_g,z_1, \ldots, z_r \mid [x_1,y_1] \cdots [x_g,y_g]z_1 \cdots z_r=1, \ z_i^{m_i}=1 \rangle$$
for some $...
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Uniqueness of the boundary of a hierarchically hyperbolic group
Hierarchically hyperbolic groups and spaces (HHG and HHS for short) were defined by Behrstock, Hagen and Sisto (see here and here). Examples include mapping class groups, Right angled Artin groups, ...
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Which $CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes are median spaces?
$CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes are simply connected collections of glued (on their faces) polyhedra of varying dimension such that each link is flag.
Which $CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes with appropriate ...
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Do $CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes have hyperplanes?
$CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes are simply connected collections of glued (on their faces) polyhedra of varying dimension such that each link is flag.
Do $CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes have "hyperplanes" ...
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Are $CAT(0)$-polygonal complexes median spaces?
A median space is a metric space $X$ for which for any three points $x, y , z \in X $ there exists a unique point $m$ such that $d(x,m)+ d(m, y)= d(x , y ), d(x,m)+ d(m, z)= d(x , z ), d(y,m)+ d(m, z)=...
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The preimage of bounded real intervals under homomorphisms on hyperbolic groups
Let $G$ be a hyperbolic group with a fixed (finite, symmetric) generating set and suppose that $\varphi : G \to \mathbb{R}$ is a group homomorphism. Write $W_n = \{ g \in G: |g|=n\}$, where $|g|$ ...
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What is a geodesic in Outer space?
The Culler-Vogtmann Outer space $\text{CV}_n$ is an analogue of Teichmuller space for the group $\text{Out}(F_n)$.
Is there any notion of a geodesic path in $\text{CV}_n$? Are there different ...
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About the growth rate of a group
Let $G$ be a f.g. group and $d$ be a word metric w.r.t. a symmetric generating set. For $g\in G$, define $|g|:=d(g,e)$, where $e$ is the group identity. For $k\in\mathbb N$, put
$$n_k:=\#\{g\in G: |g|...
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Codimension-1 subgroups of 3-manifold groups
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group and let $H$ be a subgroup of $G$. $H$ is a codimension-1 subgroup of $G$ if $C_{G}/H$ has more than one end, where $C_{G}$ is the Cayley graph of $G$.
Do all ...
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Sharpness of the $1/6$-constant in the Cancellation Theorem
I originally posted this question over at Stackexchange, before realising it is much better suited for Overflow:
Let $\langle \; S \; | \; R \; \rangle$ be a presentation of a group $G$ with a set $...
