Engulfing in word-hyperbolic groups

We examine residual properties of word-hyperbolic groups, adapting a method introduced by Darren Long to study the residual properties of Kleinian groups.

Keywords

word hyperbolic groups, residual finiteness, engulfing

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 20E26

Secondary: 20F67, 20F65

References

Forward citations

Publication

Received: 17 May 2002

Accepted: 8 July 2002

Published: 9 September 2002

Authors

Graham A Niblo
Faculty of Mathematical Studies University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK

Ben T Williams
Faculty of Mathematical Studies University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK

Volume 2, issue 2 (2002)

Graham A Niblo and Ben T Williams