Entropy and finiteness of groups with acylindrical splittings (Q2076052)

Summary: We prove that there exists a positive, explicit function \(F(k, E)\) such that, for any group \(G\) admitting a \(k\)-acylindrical splitting and any generating set \(S\) of \(G\) with \(\operatorname{Ent}(G,S) < E\), we have \(|S| \leq F(k,E)\). We deduce corresponding finiteness results for classes of groups possessing acylindrical splittings and acting geometrically with bounded entropy: for instance, \(D\)-quasiconvex \(k\)-malnormal amalgamated products acting on \(\delta\)-hyperbolic spaces or on CAT(0)-spaces with entropy bounded by \(E\). A number of finiteness results for interesting families of Riemannian 2-orbifolds, non-geometric 3-manifolds, higher dimensional graph manifolds and cusp-decomposable manifolds, ramified coverings and, more generally, CAT(0)-groups with negatively curved splittings.