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Hyperbolic hydra

  • Noel Brady

    University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States

  • Will Dison

    Bank of England, London, UK

  • Timothy R. Riley

    Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
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Abstract

We give examples of hyperbolic groups with finite rank free subgroups of huge (Ackermannian) distortion.

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Noel Brady, Will Dison, Timothy R. Riley, Hyperbolic hydra. Groups Geom. Dyn. 7 (2013), no. 4, pp. 961–976

DOI 10.4171/GGD/212