Rigidity and relative hyperbolicity of real hyperbolic hyperplane complements (Q429558)

The author studies spaces \(N\) obtained from finite volume complete real hyperbolic \(n\)-manifolds \(M\) (\(n>3\)) by removing a compact totally geodesic submanifold \(S\) of codimension two. He proves that their fundamental groups \(\pi_1(N)\) are relatively hyperbolic (where the peripheral subgroups are fundamental groups of the components \(\partial N\)), co-Hopf, biautomatic, residually hyperbolic, not Kähler, not isomorphic to lattices in virtually connected real Lie groups, have no non-trivial subgroups with Kazhdan property (T), have finite outer automorphism groups, satisfy Mostow-type rigidity, have finite asymptotic dimension and rapid decay property, and satisfy Baum-Connes conjecture. He also characterizes those lattices \(\Lambda\) in real Lie groups \(G\) (with identity component \(G_0\)) that are isomorphic to relatively hyperbolic groups: (i) \(G_0\) is compact and \(G/G_0\) is isomorphic to a non-elementary relatively hyperbolic group; or (ii) \(G/G_0\) is finite, and \(G\) contains a compact normal subgroup \(K\) such that \(K\subset G_0\) and \(G_0/K\) is a simple noncompact \(\mathbb R\)-rank one Lie group with trivial center.