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Generic properties of random subgroups of a free group for general distributions

Frédérique Bassino ORCID (1), Cyril Nicaud ORCID (2), Pascal Weil ORCID (3)
(1) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord
(2) Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge
(3) Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
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DMTCS Proceedings vol. AQ, 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'12)
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10.46298/dmtcs.2991
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Generic properties of random subgroups of a free group for general distributions

Frédérique Bassino ORCID (1), Cyril Nicaud ORCID (2), Pascal Weil ORCID (3)
(1) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord
(2) Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge
(3) Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
Abstract
We consider a generalization of the uniform word-based distribution for finitely generated subgroups of a free group. In our setting, the number of generators is not fixed, the length of each generator is determined by a random variable with some simple constraints and the distribution of words of a fixed length is specified by a Markov process. We show by probabilistic arguments that under rather relaxed assumptions, the good properties of the uniform word-based distribution are preserved: generically (but maybe not exponentially generically), the tuple we pick is a basis of the subgroup it generates, this subgroup is malnormal and the group presentation defined by this tuple satisfies a small cancellation condition.
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  • [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]
  • [MATH.MATH-GR]Mathematics [math]/Group Theory [math.GR]
  • [INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS]
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