Solvgroups are not almost convex

DOI10.1007/BF00147461zbMath0687.57018MaRDI QIDQ1263137

William P. Thurston, Matthew A. Grayson, William J. Floyd, James W. Cannon

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsalmost convex groupscocompact discrete groupsolvgeometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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