Bounded geometry in relatively hyperbolic groups.

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Authors François Dahmani, Asli Yaman

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411435, https://eudml.org/doc/126073

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic dimensionbounded geometrygroups acting on CAT(0) spacesMargulis lemmamaximal parabolic subgroupsrelatively hyperbolic groupsvirtually nilpotent subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

Abstract: We prove that, if a group is relatively hyperbolic, the parabolic subgroups are virtually nilpotent if and only if there exists a hyperbolic space with bounded geometry on which it acts geometrically finitely. This provides, by use of M. Bonk and O. Schramm embedding theorem, a very short proof of the finiteness of asymptotic dimension of relatively hyperbolic groups with virtually nilpotent parabolic subgroups (which is known to imply Novikov conjectures

Review text

The class of relatively hyperbolic groups includes many important examples such as hyperbolic groups and groups acting on CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats among others. One way of defining relative hyperbolicity is the following: A group \(G\) is hyperbolic relative to a collection \(\mathcal G\) of subgroups if it admits a properly discontinuous, isometric action on a proper hyperbolic path-metric space \(X\) such that every point in the boundary of \(X\) is either a conical limit point or a bounded parabolic point, the elements of \(\mathcal G\) are precisely the maximal parabolic subgroups of \(G\) and every element of \(\mathcal G\) is finitely generated. The authors' main result is the following equivalence for a finitely generated group \(\Gamma\) relatively hyperbolic with respect to a family \(\mathcal G\) of finitely generated subgroups: Every element of \(\mathcal G\) is virtually nilpotent if and only if there is a space \(X\) associated to \(\Gamma\) that has bounded geometry. By combining this result with a theorem of \textit{M. Bonk} and \textit{O. Schramm} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 10, No. 2, 266-306 (2000; Zbl 0972.53021)], the authors conclude that a finitely generated group \(\Gamma\) that is relatively hyperbolic with respect to a family of virtually nilpotent groups has finite asymptotic dimension. In particular, by a theorem of \textit{G. Yu} [Ann. Math. (2) 147, No. 2, 325-355 (1998; Zbl 0911.19001)], these groups satisfy the Novikov higher signature conjecture.

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