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2005 Kleinian groups and the rank problem
Ilya Kapovich, Richard Weidmann
Geom. Topol. 9(1): 375-402 (2005). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2005.9.375

Abstract

We prove that the rank problem is decidable in the class of torsion-free word-hyperbolic Kleinian groups. We also show that every group in this class has only finitely many Nielsen equivalence classes of generating sets of a given cardinality.

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Ilya Kapovich. Richard Weidmann. "Kleinian groups and the rank problem." Geom. Topol. 9 (1) 375 - 402, 2005. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2005.9.375

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Received: 31 August 2004; Accepted: 28 February 2005; Published: 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1087.20035
MathSciNet: MR2140986
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2005.9.375

Subjects:
Primary: 20F67 , 57M60
Secondary: 30F40

Keywords: 3–manifolds , Nielsen methods , word-hyperbolic groups

Rights: Copyright © 2005 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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