Almost all one-relator groups with at least three generators are residually finite
Author(s) -
Mark Sapir,
Iva Špakulová
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the european mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.549
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-9863
pISSN - 1435-9855
DOI - 10.4171/jems/255
Subject(s) - mathematics , pure mathematics
We prove that with probability tending to 1, a 1-relator group with at least3 generators and relator of length n is residually finite, virtually residually(finite p)-group for all sufficiently large p, and coherent. The proof usesboth combinatorial group theory and non-trivial results about Brownian motions,bridges and excursions in R^k.
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