Baumslag-Solitar groups, relative profinite completions and measure equivalence rigidity

A Rigidity Theorem for the Solvable Baumslag-solitar Groups

Triangles of Baumslag-solitar Groups

Our main result is that many triangles of BaumslagSolitar groups collapse to finite groups, generalizing a famous example of Hirsch and other examples due to several authors. A triangle of Baumslag-Solitar groups means a group with three generators, cyclically ordered, with each generator conjugating some power of the previous one to another power. There are six parameters, occurring in pairs, ...

Metric properties of Baumslag-Solitar groups

We compute estimates for the word metric of Baumslag–Solitar groups in terms of the Britton’s lemma normal form. As a corollary, we find lower bounds for the growth rate for the groups BS(p, q), with 1 < p ≤ q.

Tiling Problems on Baumslag-Solitar groups

Wang tilings are colorings of the Euclidean plane that respect some local constraints. They can be viewed both as dynamical systems and computational models, but they were first introduced by Hao Wang to study decision problems on some classes of logical formulas [18]. The concept of Wang tiles may be generalized to define tilings on the Cayley graph of a finitely generated group. The domino pr...

Splittings of generalized Baumslag–Solitar groups

We study the structure of generalized Baumslag–Solitar groups from the point of view of their (usually non-unique) splittings as fundamental groups of graphs of infinite cyclic groups. We find and characterize certain decompositions of smallest complexity (fully reduced decompositions) and give a simplified proof of the existence of deformations. We also prove a finiteness theorem and solve the...