Uniform spectral gap conjecture for hyperbolic special groups

A group is called CC-special or AA-special in the sense of Haglund and Wise. For an integral chain in such a group, a spectral gap BB means that every integral chain not equivalent to the zero chain has stable commutator length at least BB.

Uniform spectral gap conjecture. There is a uniform constant B>0B>0 such that any hyperbolic CC-special or AA-special group has a spectral gap BB for integral chains.

This conjecture extends the uniform gap established for integral chains in hyperbolic right-angled Coxeter groups to hyperbolic special groups. The definitions of CC-special and AA-special groups are attributed to Haglund and Wise; the source does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Lvzhou Chen and Nicolaus Heuer, “Stable commutator length in right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups”, arXiv:2012.04088 (2022).

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