## Geometry & Topology

### Strong accessibility for finitely presented groups

#### Abstract

A hierarchy of a group is a rooted tree of groups obtained by iteratively passing to vertex groups of graphs of groups decompositions. We define a (relative) slender JSJ hierarchy for (almost) finitely presented groups and show that it is finite, provided the group in question doesn’t contain any slender subgroups with infinite dihedral quotients and satisfies an ascending chain condition on certain chains of subgroups of edge groups.

As a corollary, slender JSJ hierarchies of finitely presented subgroups of $SLn(ℤ)$ or of hyperbolic groups which are (virtually) without $2$–torsion are finite.

#### Article information

Source
Geom. Topol., Volume 21, Number 3 (2017), 1805-1835.

Dates
Received: 22 September 2015
Accepted: 5 April 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 16 November 2017

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1510859210

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/gt.2017.21.1805

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3650082

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06726512

#### Citation

Louder, Larsen; Touikan, Nicholas. Strong accessibility for finitely presented groups. Geom. Topol. 21 (2017), no. 3, 1805--1835. doi:10.2140/gt.2017.21.1805. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1510859210

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