Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity.

DOI10.1007/S00208-008-0317-1zbMATH Open1220.20037arXivmath/0512592OpenAlexW2138404533WikidataQ60395385 ScholiaQ60395385MaRDI QIDQ1024191FDOQ1024191

Cornelia Drutu, Jason A. Behrstock, Lee Mosher

Publication date: 16 June 2009

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the geometry of nonrelatively hyperbolic groups. Generalizing a result of Schwartz, any quasi-isometric image of a non-relatively hyperbolic space in a relatively hyperbolic space is contained in a bounded neighborhood of a single peripheral subgroup. This implies that a group being relatively hyperbolic with nonrelatively hyperbolic peripheral subgroups is a quasi-isometry invariant. As an application, Artin groups are relatively hyperbolic if and only if freely decomposable. We also introduce a new quasi-isometry invariant of metric spaces called metrically thick, which is sufficient for a metric space to be nonhyperbolic relative to any nontrivial collection of subsets. Thick finitely generated groups include: mapping class groups of most surfaces; outer automorphism groups of most free groups; certain Artin groups; and others. Nonuniform lattices in higher rank semisimple Lie groups are thick and hence nonrelatively hyperbolic, in contrast with rank one which provided the motivating examples of relatively hyperbolic groups. Mapping class groups are the first examples of nonrelatively hyperbolic groups having cut points in any asymptotic cone, resolving several questions of Drutu and Sapir about the structure of relatively hyperbolic groups. Outside of group theory, Teichmuller spaces for surfaces of sufficiently large complexity are thick with respect to the Weil-Peterson metric, in contrast with Brock--Farb's hyperbolicity result in low complexity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512592

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsouter automorphism groupsperipheral subgroupsquasi-isometry invariantsgeometry of non-relatively hyperbolic groupsthick finitely generated groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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