Local cut points and splittings of relatively hyperbolic groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2019.19.2795MaRDI QIDQ6289944arXivFDO

Authors Matthew Haulmark

Publication date 9 August 2017

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/AGT.2019.19.2795

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.GT

Abstract: In this paper we show that the existence of a non-parabolic local cut point in the Bowditch boundary $partial(G,mathbbP)$ of a relatively hyperbolic group $(G,mathbbP)$ implies that $G$ splits over a $2$-ended subgroup. This theorem generalizes a theorem of Bowditch from the setting of hyperbolic groups to relatively hyperbolic groups. As a consequence we are able to generalize a theorem of Kapovich and Kleiner by classifying the homeomorphism type of $1$-dimensional Bowditch boundaries of relatively hyperbolic groups which satisfy certain properties, such as no splittings over $2$-ended subgroups and no peripheral splittings. In order to prove the boundary classification result we require a notion of ends of a group which is more general than the standard notion. We show that if a finitely generated discrete group acts properly and cocompactly on two generalized Peano continua $X$ and $Y$, then $Ends(X)$ is homeomorphic to $Ends(Y)$. Thus we propose an alternate definition of $Ends(G)$ which increases the class of spaces on which $G$ can act.

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