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Strong accessibility for hyperbolic groups

Diane M Vavrichek

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 8 (2008) 1459–1479
Abstract

We use an accessibility result of Delzant and Potyagailo to prove Swarup’s Strong Accessibility Conjecture for Gromov hyperbolic groups with no 2–torsion. It follows that, if M is an irreducible, orientable, compact 3–manifold with hyperbolic fundamental group, then any hierarchy in which M is decomposed alternately along compressing disks and essential annuli is finite.

Keywords
group accessibility, hierarchies, hyperbolic groups, Bass–Serre theory
Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 20E08, 20F65
Secondary: 57M99, 57N35, 20F67
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Publication
Received: 17 August 2007
Revised: 12 December 2007
Accepted: 20 February 2008
Published: 5 September 2008
Authors
Diane M Vavrichek
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Binghamton University
Binghamton
NY 13902-6000
USA
http://www.math.binghamton.edu/vavrichek/