A characterisation of virtually free groups

Sarah Rees

Keywords

groups, virtually-free, context-free, regular languages, geodesics

Status

published in Arch. Math. (Basel) 89 (2007), no. 4, 289–295.

Abstract

We prove that a finitely generated group $G$ is virtually free if and only if there exists a generating set for $G$ and $k > 0$ such that all $k$-locally geodesic words with respect to that generating set are geodesic. \


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