Abstract homomorphisms from some topological groups to acylindrically hyperbolic groups

DOI10.1007/S00208-021-02278-4MaRDI QIDQ6322596arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Oleg Bogopolski, Samuel M. Corson

Publication date 23 July 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00208-021-02278-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: We describe homomorphisms $varphi:HightarrowG$ for which the codomain is acylindrically hyperbolic and the domain is a topological group which is either completely metrizable or locally countably compact Hausdorff. It is shown that, in a certain sense, either the image of $varphi$ is small or $varphi$ is almost continuous. We also describe homomorphisms from the Hawaiian earring group to $G$ as above. We prove a more precise result for homomorphisms $varphi:HightarrowmMod(Sigma)$, where $H$ as above and $mMod(Sigma)$ is the mapping class group of a connected compact surface $Sigma$. In this case there exists an open normal subgroup $VleqslantH$ such that $varphi(V)$ is finite. We also prove the analogous statement for homomorphisms $varphi:HightarrowmOut(G)$, where $G$ is a one-ended hyperbolic group. Some automatic continuity results for relatively hyperbolic groups and fundamental groups of graphs of groups are also deduced. As a by-product, we prove that the Hawaiian earring group is acylindrically hyperbolic, but does not admit any universal acylindrical action on a hyperbolic space.

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