Branched Coverings of Cubical Complexes and Subgroups of Hyperbolic Groups

Brady, Noel

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“…A question due to M. Gromov, arises, see [10]: is a finitely presented group with no Baumslag-Solitar subgroups hyperbolic? N. Brady has answered this question in the negative [17]. The counterexamples are subgroups of hyperbolic groups (and hence contain no BS(p, q)) and possess no finite K(Γ, 1) (and hence fail to be hyperbolic as an appropriate Rips complex would serve as K (Γ, 1)).…”

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Subgroups of mapping class groups from the geometrical viewpoint

Kent¹,

Leininger²

2007

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, IV

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Once it is possible to translate any particular proof from one theory to another, then the analogy has ceased to be productive for this purpose; it would cease to be at all productive if at one point we had a meaningful and natural way of deriving both theories from a single one. . . . Gone is the analogy: gone are the two theories, their conflicts and their delicious reciprocal reflections, their furtive caresses, their inexplicable quarrels; alas, all is just one theory, whose majestic beauty can no longer excite us.

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Section: Gromov's "Hyperbolization" Questionmentioning

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Subgroups of mapping class groups from the geometrical viewpoint

Kent¹,

Leininger²

2007

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, IV

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“…However, our choice of ρ has an extra symmetry built in that the one in [2] lacked. This symmetry will be crucial in Section 4.2 below.…”

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“…Our construction is a modification of the construction in [2] of a hyperbolic group with a finitely presented subgroup which is not hyperbolic. The hyperbolic group in [2] is torsion-free, and does not admit any obvious finite-order automorphisms.…”

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Morse theory and conjugacy classes of finite subgroups

2008

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“…See e.g. [26,42,172,193] for the examples which are not 3-manifold groups. However embedding a given hyperbolic group Γ in Mob(S n ) is a nontrivial task, cf.…”

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Kleinian Groups in Higher Dimensions

Kapovich

Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces

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Abstract. This is a survey of higher-dimensional Kleinian groups, i.e., discrete isometry groups of the hyperbolic n-space H n for n ≥ 4. Our main emphasis is on the topological and geometric aspects of higher-dimensional Kleinian groups and their contrast with the discrete groups of isometry of H 3 .To the memory of Sasha Reznikov IntroductionThe goal of this survey is to give an overview (mainly from the topological perspective) of the theory of Kleinian groups in higher dimensions. The survey grew out of a series of lectures I gave in the University of Maryland in the Fall of 1991. An early (much shorter) version of this paper appeared as the preprint [109]. In this survey I collect well-known facts as well as less-known and new results. Hopefully, this will make the survey interesting to both non-experts and experts. We also refer the reader to Tukia's short survey [217] of higher-dimensional Kleinian groups.There is a vast variety of Kleinian groups in higher dimensions: It appears that there is no hope for a comprehensive structure theory similar to the theory of discrete groups of isometries of H 3 . I do not know a good guiding principle for the taxonomy of higher-dimensional Kleinian groups. In this paper the higher-dimensional Kleinian groups are organized according to the topological complexity of their limit sets. In this setting one of the key questions that I will address is the interaction between the geometry and topology of the limit set and the algebraic and topological properties of the Kleinian group. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we consider the most basic concepts of the theory of Kleinian groups, e.g. domain of discontinuity, limit set, geometric finiteness, etc. In Section 3 we discuss various ways to construct Kleinian groups and list the tools of the theory of Kleinian groups in higher dimensions. In Section 4 we review the homological algebra used in the paper. In Section 5 we state topological rigidity results of Farrell and Jones and the coarse compact core theorem for higher-dimensional Kleinian groups. In Section 6 we discuss various notions of equivalence between Kleinian groups: From the weakest (isomorphism) to the strongest (conjugacy). In Section 7 we consider groups with zero-dimensional limit sets; such groups are relatively well-understood. Convex-cocompact groups with 1-dimensional limit sets are discussed in Section 8. Although the topology of the limit sets of such groups is well-understood, their group-theoretic structure is a mystery. We know very little about Kleinian groups with higher-dimensional limit sets, thus we restrict the discussion to Kleinian groups whose limit sets are topological spheres (Section 9). We Date: February 2, 2008. 1 then discuss Ahlfors finiteness theorem and its failure in higher dimensions (Section 10). We then consider the representation varieties of Kleinian groups (Section 11). Lastly we discuss algebraic and topological constraints on Kleinian groups in higher dimensions (Section 12).Acknowledgments. During this work ...

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Branched Coverings of Cubical Complexes and Subgroups of Hyperbolic Groups

Abstract: ABy considering branched coverings of piecewise Euclidean cubical complexes, the paper provides an example of a torsion free hyperbolic group containing a finitely presented subgroup which is not hyperbolic.

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Subgroups of mapping class groups from the geometrical viewpoint

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Kleinian Groups in Higher Dimensions

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