Splittings and automorphisms of relatively hyperbolic groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/322zbMATH Open1368.20037arXiv1212.1434MaRDI QIDQ2356014FDOQ2356014

Authors: Vincent Guirardel, Gilbert Levitt 

Publication date: 28 July 2015

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study automorphisms of a relatively hyperbolic group G. When G is one-ended, we describe Out(G) using a preferred JSJ tree over subgroups that are virtually cyclic or parabolic. In particular, when G is toral relatively hyperbolic, Out(G) is virtually built out of mapping class groups and subgroups of GL_n(Z) fixing certain basis elements. When more general parabolic groups are allowed, these subgroups of GL_n(Z) have to be replaced by McCool groups: automorphisms of parabolic groups acting trivially (i.e. by conjugation) on certain subgroups. Given a malnormal quasiconvex subgroup P of a hyperbolic group G, we view G as hyperbolic relative to P and we apply the previous analysis to describe the group Out(P to G) of automorphisms of P that extend to G: it is virtually a McCool group. If Out(P to G) is infinite, then P is a vertex group in a splitting of G. If P is torsion-free, then Out(P to G) is of type VF, in particular finitely presented. We also determine when Out(G) is infinite, for G relatively hyperbolic. The interesting case is when G is infinitely-ended and has torsion. When G is hyperbolic, we show that Out(G) is infinite if and only if G splits over a maximal virtually cyclic subgroup with infinite center. In general we show that infiniteness of Out(G) comes from the existence of a splitting with infinitely many twists, or having a vertex group that is maximal parabolic with infinitely many automorphisms acting trivially on incident edge groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1434

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zbMATH Keywords

groups of automorphismsrelatively hyperbolic groupgroups acting on treessplittinghyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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