Automatic structures,rational growth,and geometrically finite hyperbolic groups |
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Authors: | Walter D Neumann Michael Shapiro |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, The University of Melbourne, 3052 Parkville, Victoria, Australia |
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Abstract: | Summary We show that the set
of equivalence classes of synchronously automatic structures on a geometrically finite hyperbolic groupG is dense in the product of the sets
over all maximal parabolic subgroupsP. The set
of equivalence classes of biautomatic structures onG is isomorphic to the product of the sets
over the cusps (conjugacy classes of maximal parabolic subgroups) ofG. Each maximal parabolicP is a virtually abelian group, so
and
were computed in NS1].We show that any geometrically finite hyperbolic group has a generating set for which the full language of geodesics forG is regular. Moreover, the growth function ofG with respect to this generating set is rational. We also determine which automatic structures on such a group are equivalent to geodesic ones. Not all are, though all biautomatic structures are.Oblatum 14-VI-1993 & 4-I-1994Both authors acknowledge support from the NSF for this research. |
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