Delzant's variation on Scott complexity

2004/01/23 by Gadde A. Swarup, Swarup, Gadde A.
Mathematics · #20F38 #57M05 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Group Theory (math.GR) #math.GR #math.GT #msc:20F38 #msc:57M05

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0401308

8 pages

arxiv created 2004/01/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We give an exposition of Delzant's ideas extending the notion of Scott complexity of finitely generated groups to surjective homomorphisms of finitely presented groups to finitely generated groups.

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