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FALSE: the same delta works after every finite change of generating set
Statement
False claim: once a finitely generated group is hyperbolic, one numerical slimness constant works for the Cayley graph of every finite generating set.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The free group and, for each integer , the generating set .
Write . A word over with signed total exponent of and length has abelianization only if Indeed, its remaining - and -letters must supply the respective coordinate differences.
Refutation
The generating set gives a tree Cayley graph, so is -hyperbolic for that choice.
Let , and choose an even with . The paths labelled from to and from to have length . They are geodesic: for every integer , [A1] gives respective lower bounds and . The edge labelled joins to , so these paths form a geodesic triangle.
Its midpoint vertex is distance from . For any word from to , [A1] gives for every integer : the first term is at least , and either or the second term is positive. Thus is at distance at least from the one-edge side , including its interior. Every vertex on the other long side, , is also at distance at least from , since the first term of the lower bound is at least for every integer . The same bound holds for points inside its edges. Therefore this geodesic triangle is not -slim.
Since was arbitrary, no single constant works for all finite generating sets of . Therefore the claim is false.
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Sources
- Brian H. Bowditch, A course on geometric group theory, Section 2.2 (standard reference, not scraped)