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| author | Köhl, R. Salarian, M. Reza |
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| contents | We establish combinatorial characterizations of virtually torsion-free and virtually free groups using the canonical graph decomposition theory in \cite{DJKK22}. Our main results show that a finitely presented, residually finite group $Γ$ is virtually torsion-free if and only if there exists a locality parameter $r>0$ such that its $r$-local cover admits a canonical tree-decomposition with finite quotient and finite adhesion, every finite subgroup of $Γ$ fixes a vertex of this decomposition, and the finite subgroups in each bag have uniformly bounded order. Moreover, a finitely generated group $Γ$ is virtually free if and only if for some $r>0$ its $r$-global decomposition has a finite model graph with finite bags and the tree-decomposition of the $r$-local cover is $Γ$-equivariantly isomorphic to the Bass--Serre tree arising from a splitting of $Γ$ as a finite graph of finite groups. |
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| spellingShingle | Combinatorial Characterizations of Virtually Torsion-Free and Virtually Free Groups Köhl, R. Salarian, M. Reza Group Theory Combinatorics We establish combinatorial characterizations of virtually torsion-free and virtually free groups using the canonical graph decomposition theory in \cite{DJKK22}. Our main results show that a finitely presented, residually finite group $Γ$ is virtually torsion-free if and only if there exists a locality parameter $r>0$ such that its $r$-local cover admits a canonical tree-decomposition with finite quotient and finite adhesion, every finite subgroup of $Γ$ fixes a vertex of this decomposition, and the finite subgroups in each bag have uniformly bounded order. Moreover, a finitely generated group $Γ$ is virtually free if and only if for some $r>0$ its $r$-global decomposition has a finite model graph with finite bags and the tree-decomposition of the $r$-local cover is $Γ$-equivariantly isomorphic to the Bass--Serre tree arising from a splitting of $Γ$ as a finite graph of finite groups. |
| title | Combinatorial Characterizations of Virtually Torsion-Free and Virtually Free Groups |
| topic | Group Theory Combinatorics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04612 |