Rank gradient, cost of groups and the rank versus Heegaard genus problem
Rank gradient, cost of groups and the rank versus Heegaard genus problem
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10.4171/jems/344
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2007-01
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Miklós Abért;N. Nikolov
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作者:
Miklós Abért;N. Nikolov
We study the growth of the rank of subgroups of finite index in residually finite groups, by relating it to the notion of cost. As a by-product, we show that the `Rank vs. Heegaard genus' conjecture on hyperbolic 3-manifolds is incompatible with the `Fixed Price problem' in topological dynamics.