TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ASYMPTOTIC CONES
Gromov asked whether an asymptotic cone of a finitely generated group was always simply connected or had uncountable fundamental group. We prove that Gromov's dichotomy holds for asymptotic cones with cut points as well as HNN extensions and amalgamated products where the associated subgroups a...
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VANDERBILT
2013
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03202013-104718/ |