Embedding mapping class groups into a finite product of trees (Q2013897)

Summary: We prove the equivalence between a relative bottleneck property and being quasi-isometric to a tree-graded space. As a consequence, we deduce that the quasi-trees of spaces defined axiomatically by \textit{M. Bestvina} et al. [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 122, 1--64 (2015; Zbl 1372.20029)] are quasi-isometric to tree-graded spaces. Using this we prove that mapping class groups quasi-isometrically embed into a finite product of simplicial trees. In particular, these groups have finite Assouad-Nagata dimension, direct embeddings exhibiting \(\ell^p\) compression exponent \(1\) for all \(p\geq 1\) and they quasi-isometrically embed into \(\ell^1(\mathbb{N})\). We deduce similar consequences for relatively hyperbolic groups whose parabolic subgroups satisfy such conditions. In obtaining these results we also demonstrate that curve complexes of compact surfaces and coned-off graphs of relatively hyperbolic groups admit quasi-isometric embeddings into finite products of trees.