Rips-Segev torsion-free groups without the unique product property

Markus Steenbock

Published 2013-07-03, updated 2015-06-05Version 2

We generalize the graphical small cancellation theory of Gromov to a graphical small cancellation theory over the free product. We extend Gromov's small cancellation theorem to the free product. We explain and generalize Rips-Segev's construction of torsion-free groups without the unique product property by viewing these groups as given by graphical small cancellation presentations over the free product. Our graphical small cancellation theorem then provides first examples of Gromov hyperbolic groups without the unique product property. We construct uncountably many non-isomorphic torsion-free groups without the unique product property. We show that the presentations of generalized Rips-Segev groups are not generic among finite presentations of groups.