Automatically presented groups

Abstract

We introduce the notions of automatically presented groups and piecewise automatically presented groups. We show that if G is a piecewise automatically presented group satisfying the property T of Kazhdan, then G is finite. We prove that if G is amenable and finitely presented, then G is virtually abelian. We give further restrictions for a group to be piecewise automatically presented and study properties of such groups. We also give examples of automatically presented groups.