Fillings, finite generation and direct limits of relatively hyperbolic groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/16MaRDI QIDQ2472587zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel Groves, Jason Fox Manning

Publication date 22 February 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606070

zbMATH Keywords

Baum-Connes conjecturedirect limits of hyperbolic groupsfinitely generated groupsinfinitely generated groupsNovikov conjecturerelatively hyperbolic groupsuniform embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Other ``noncommutative mathematics based on (C^*)-algebra theory (46L89)

Abstract: We examine the relationship between finitely and infinitely generated relatively hyperbolic groups, in two different contexts. First, we elaborate on a remark from math.GR/0601311, which states that the version of Dehn filling in relatively hyperbolic groups proved in math.GR/0510195, allowing infinitely generated parabolic subgroups, follows from the version with finitely generated parabolics. Second, we observe that direct limits of relatively hyperbolic groups are in fact direct limits of finitely generated relatively hyperbolic groups. We use this (and known results) to derive some consequences about the Strong Novikov Conjecture for groups as constructed in math.GR/0411039.

Review text

The Novikov, Baum-Connes and related conjectures are known to hold for a large class of groups. It is interesting, therefore, to construct ``exotic groups for which these conjectures do not hold. One could hope to build such a group by taking direct limits of hyperbolic groups, but hyperbolic groups are known to satisfy these conjectures and the rational injectivity of the Baum-Connes assembly map is preserved by direct limits. Thus, such groups satisfy the Novikov conjecture. \textit{D. V. Osin} [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 843 (2006; Zbl 1093.20025)] constructed groups as direct limits of infinitely generated relatively hyperbolic groups. Although there are many results saying that a finitely generated group that is hyperbolic to groups satisfying the Novikov (or Baum-Connes, etc.) conjecture will itself satisfy the Novikov (or Baum-Connes) conjecture, it is conceivable that Osin's construction could lead to a counterexample. The main result of the paper is that this is probably not the case. The authors show that a direct limit of relatively hyperbolic groups is the direct limit of finitely generated relatively hyperbolic groups. The main result of the paper is this: groups that are exotic enough to provide a counter-example to the Strong Novikov Conjecture will have to have been built into the finitely generated subgroups of the parabolic subgroups.

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• Dehn filling in relatively hyperbolic groups.
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• Filling Radii of Finitely Presented Groups
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