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Solvable groups with polynomial Dehn functions
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by G. N. Arzhantseva and D. V. Osin PDF
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Abstract:

Given a finitely presented group $H$, finitely generated subgroup $B$ of $H$, and a monomorphism $\psi :B\to H$, we obtain an upper bound of the Dehn function of the corresponding HNN-extension $G=\langle H, t\; |\; t^{-1}Bt=\psi (B)\rangle$ in terms of the Dehn function of $H$ and the distortion of $B$ in $G$. Using such a bound, we construct first examples of non-polycyclic solvable groups with polynomial Dehn functions. The constructed groups are metabelian and contain the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups. In particular, this answers a question posed by Birget, Ol’shanskii, Rips, and Sapir.
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  • G. N. Arzhantseva
  • Affiliation: Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, CP 240, 1211 Genève 24, Switzerland
  • Email: Goulnara.Arjantseva@math.unige.ch
  • D. V. Osin
  • Affiliation: Department of High Algebra, MEHMAT, Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia
  • MR Author ID: 649248
  • Email: Denis.Osin@mtu-net.ru
  • Received by editor(s): August 2, 2000
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 13, 2000
  • Published electronically: April 3, 2002
  • Additional Notes: The work has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), 3329-3348
  • MSC (2000): Primary 20F69, 20F06, 20F65, 20F16, 20F05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-02-02985-9
  • MathSciNet review: 1897402