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On convex hulls and the quasiconvex subgroups of Fm×ℤn

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Published/Copyright: April 15, 2014
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Abstract

In this paper, we explore a method for forming the convex hull of a subset in a uniquely geodesic metric space due to Brunn and use it to show that with respect to the usual action of Fm×ℤn on Tree ×n, every quasiconvex subgroup of Fm×ℤn is convex. Further, we show that the Cartan–Hadamard theorem can be used to show that locally convex subsets of complete and connected CAT(0) spaces are convex. Finally, we show that the quasiconvex subgroups of Fm×ℤn are precisely those of the form A×B, where AFm is finitely generated, and Bn.

MSC: 20F65; 20F67

The author would like to thank the anonymous referee for the many comments which have helped to greatly improve the exposition and the organization of this paper. The author would also like to thank Enric Ventura for the helpful discussions during the author's short visit to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in the late Summer of 2012. Finally, the author wishes to thank his doctoral adviser Peter Scott for the introduction to the world of combinatorial group theory and low dimensional topology.

Received: 2013-11-25
Published Online: 2014-4-15
Published in Print: 2015-5-1

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