The aim of the paper is to attach a noncommutative cluster-like structure to each marked surface Σ. This is a noncommutative algebra AΣ generated by “noncommutative geodesics” between marked points subject to certain triangle relations and noncommutative analogues of Ptolemy-Plücker relations. It turns out that the algebra AΣ exhibits a noncommutative Laurent Phenomenon with respect to any tria...

The aim of the paper is to attach a noncommutative cluster-like structure to each marked surface Σ. This is a noncommutative algebra AΣ generated by “noncommutative geodesics” between marked points subject to certain triangle relations and noncommutative analogues of Ptolemy-Plücker relations. It turns out that the algebra AΣ exhibits a noncommutative Laurent Phenomenon with respect to any tria...

The connective constant of a graph is the exponential growth rate of the number of self-avoiding walks starting at a given vertex. Strict inequalities are proved for connective constants of vertex-transitive graphs. First, the connective constant decreases strictly when the graph is replaced by a nontrivial quotient graph. Second, the connective constant increases strictly when a quasitransitiv...

We show that for any finite group G and for any d there exists a word w ∈ Fd such that a d-tuple in G satisfies w if and only if it generates a solvable subgroup. In particular, if G itself is not solvable, then it cannot be obtained as a quotient of the one relator group Fd/ 〈w〉. As a corollary, the probability that a word is satisfied in a fixed nonsolvable group can be made arbitrarily small...

Let Ξ be a one-relator group with presentation & — ($i, •" ,%n R ) where R is not a proper power and p ^ 2. Then given any integer q, relatively prime to p, we can construct the Lens space ^(pf q) for Ξ from the cellular model C(&) of the presentation & by attaching a 3-cell via the attaching map R — 1, which generates the ideal ZΞ(R — 1) « τr2(C(^)). In this paper we classify these Lens spaces...