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Growth Of Conjugacy Classes Of Reciprocal Words In Triangle Groups, Blanca T. Marmolejo
Growth Of Conjugacy Classes Of Reciprocal Words In Triangle Groups, Blanca T. Marmolejo
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In this thesis we obtain the growth rates for conjugacy classes of reciprocal words for triangle groups of the form G = Z2 ∗ H where H is finitely generated and does not contain an order 2 element. We explore cases where H is infinite cyclic and finite cyclic. The quotient O = H/G is an orbifold and contains a cone point of order 2, due to the first factor Z2 in the free product G. The reciprocal words in G correspond to geodesics on O which pass through the order 2 cone point on O. We use methods from …