Published November 10, 2008 | Version Published + Accepted Version
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Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups

Abstract

Let G be a finitely presented group, and G′ its commutator subgroup. Let C be the Cayley graph of G′ with all commutators in G as generators. Then C is large scale simply connected. Furthermore, if G is a torsion-free nonelementary word-hyperbolic group, C is one-ended. Hence (in this case), the asymptotic dimension of C is at least 2.

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© Mathematical Sciences Publishers. Received: 29 July 2008. Revised: 1 October 2008. We would like to thank Koji Fujiwara for some useful conversations. We would also like to thank the anonymous referee for a careful reading, and many useful comments. Danny Calegari was partially funded by NSF grant DMS 0707130.

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DMS-0707130

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