A note on complex hyperbolic lattices and strict hyperbolization
This note studies whether the (relative) Charney-Davis strict hyperbolization procedure can produce spaces whose fundamental groups are (commensurable to) complex hyperbolic lattices. Let \(\mathbb{H}^n_{\mathbb{C}}\) denote complex hyperbolic \(n\)-space and \(\mathrm{PU}(n,1)\) its group of holomorphic isometries. For \(n\ge 2\), the author proves that the relative strict hyperbolization applied to a finite simplicial pair \((K,L)\) cannot produce fundamental groups isomorphic to non-uniform lattices in \(\mathrm{PU}(n,1)\) (Theorem~1.6). Likewise, the strict hyperbolization of a compact \(n\)-dimensional simplicial complex without boundary cannot yield groups isomorphic to uniform lattices in \(\mathrm{PU}(n,1)\) (Theorem~1.7). Consequently, neither strict nor relative strict hyperbolization produces complex hyperbolic manifolds of complex dimension \(n\ge 2\) (Theorem~1.1).\N\NThe argument uses the fact that groups obtained by (relative) strict hyperbolization admit actions on CAT(0) cube complexes with strong stabilizer properties, via the relative cubulation results of \textit{J.-F.~Lafont} and \textit{L.~Ruffoni} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 111, No. 4, Article ID e70093, 30 p. (2025; Zbl 1565.20108)]. In the non-uniform case, where a lattice \(\Gamma<\mathrm{PU}(n,1)\) is relatively hyperbolic with respect to its cusp subgroups, the construction implies that sufficiently long Dehn fillings of \(\Gamma\) produce hyperbolic virtually special quotients; this is incompatible with the cohomological and geometric properties of complex hyperbolic lattices for \(n\ge 2\). In the uniform case, the obstruction comes from the fact that uniform complex hyperbolic lattices are Kähler and have cohomological dimension \(2n\), which can not occur for groups arising from strict hyperbolization.
- Aspherical manifolds with relatively hyperbolic fundamental groups.
- Boundaries of Dehn fillings
- Corners and arithmetic groups (Appendice: Arrondissement des varietes a coins par A. Douady et L. Herault)
- Cusp closing in rank one symmetric spaces
- Cuts in Kähler groups
- Dehn filling in relatively hyperbolic groups.
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- Hyperbolic groups acting improperly
- Manifolds of nonpositive curvature
- Peripheral fillings of relatively hyperbolic groups.
- Relative cubulation of relative strict hyperbolization
- Relative cubulations and groups with a 2-sphere boundary
- Relative hyperbolization and aspherical bordisms: An addendum to: ``Hyperbolization of polyhedra
- Relatively geometric actions of Kähler groups on CAT(0) cube complexes
- Relatively hyperbolic groups
- Special cubulation of strict hyperbolization
- Strict hyperbolization
- The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy
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