Detecting a subclass of torsion-generated groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2018.18.4037MaRDI QIDQ1713049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Emily Stark

Publication date 24 January 2019

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05684

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsquasi-isometrycommensurability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: We classify the groups quasi-isometric to a group generated by finite-order elements within the class of one-ended hyperbolic groups which are not Fuchsian and whose JSJ decomposition over two-ended subgroups does not contain rigid vertex groups. To do this, we characterize which JSJ trees of a group in this class admit a cocompact group action with quotient a tree. The conditions are stated in terms of two graphs we associate to the degree refinement of a group in this class. We prove there is a group in this class which is quasi-isometric to a Coxeter group but is not abstractly commensurable to a group generated by finite-order elements. Consequently, the subclass of groups in this class generated by finite-order elements is not quasi-isometrically rigid. We provide necessary conditions for two groups in this class to be abstractly commensurable. We use these conditions to prove there are infinitely many abstract commensurability classes within each quasi-isometry class within this class that contains a group generated by finite-order elements.

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