Théorie des groupes

Automaticity of generalised triangle groups

by Ana Isakovic (University of Cambridge)

Europe/Brussels
B/2nd floor-B.203 - Seminar room (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

B/2nd floor-B.203 - Seminar room

Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)

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Description

 In 1984 Cannon showed that hyperbolic groups have finitely many cone types. In this talk, I will demonstrate how this result can be extended to non-positively curved k -fold triangle groups. I will explain how this implies that such groups have an automatic structure and discuss some applications