Statistical hyperbolicity in groups

Details Statistical hyperbolicity in groups Statistical hyperbolicity in groups

2011-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/1104.4460v1

Mathematics

Group Theory

14 pages, 5 figures. This is split off from the paper "The geometry of spheres in free abelian groups."

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In this paper, we introduce a geometric statistic called the "sprawl" of a group with respect to a generating set, based on the average distance in the word metric between pairs of words of equal length. The sprawl quantifies a certain obstruction to hyperbolicity. Group presentations with maximum sprawl (i.e., without this obstruction) are called statistically hyperbolic. We first relate sprawl to curvature and show that nonelementary hyperbolic groups are statistically hyperbolic, then give some results for products, for Diestel-Leader graphs and lamplighter groups. In free abelian groups, the word metrics asymptotically approach norms induced by convex polytopes, causing the study of sprawl to reduce to a problem in convex geometry. We present an algorithm that computes sprawl exactly for any generating set, thus quantifying the failure of various presentations of Z^d to be hyperbolic. This leads to a conjecture about the extreme values, with a connection to the classic Mahler conjecture.

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