Piecewise-quasilinearity of stable commutator length in free products of cyclic groups

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Let Gjk=⟨aj⟩/⟨ajoj,k⟩=Z/oj,kZG_j^k = \langle a_j \rangle / \langle a_j^{o_{j,k}} \rangle = \mathbb Z/o_{j,k}\mathbb Z and let Gk=∗jGjkG_k = *_j G_j^k. Fix Γ\Gamma such that Γ∈B1H(Gk)\Gamma \in B_1^H(G_k) for all kk; this requires only that Γ\Gamma have the appropriate number of inverse pairs in the free factors. Piecewise-quasilinearity conjecture. For oj,ko_{j,k} sufficiently large, the stable commutator length sclGk(Γ){\textnormal{scl}}_{G_k}(\Gamma) is piecewise-quasilinear in the variables 1/oj,k1/o_{j,k}. The conjecture predicts the eventual piecewise-quasilinear behavior of stable commutator length as the orders of the cyclic factors grow, extending the quasipolynomial phenomena observed in computations for free products of cyclic groups.

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Alden Walker, “Stable commutator length in free products of cyclic groups”, arXiv:1304.6312 (2013).

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