Preservation and Distortion of Area in Finitely Presented Groups
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چکیده
If K = Goφ Z where φ is a tame automorphism of the 1-relator group G, then the combinatorial area of loops in a Cayley graph of G is undistorted in a Cayley graph of K. Examples of distortion of area in fibres of fibrations over the circle are given and a notion of exponent of area distortion is introduced and studied. The inclusion of a finitely generated abelian subgroup in the fundamental group of a compact 3-manifold does not distort area.
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