Coarse median structures and homomorphisms from Kazhdan groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0090-8zbMATH Open1380.20046arXiv1408.1866OpenAlexW1911785066MaRDI QIDQ2634845FDOQ2634845

Rudolf Zeidler

Publication date: 10 February 2016

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Bowditch's notion of a coarse median on a metric space and formally introduce the concept of a coarse median structure as an equivalence class of coarse medians up to closeness. We show that a group which possesses a uniformly left-invariant coarse median structure admits only finitely many conjugacy classes of homomorphisms from a given group with Kazhdan's property (T). This is a common generalization of a theorem due to Paulin about the outer automorphism group of a hyperbolic group with property (T) as well as of a result of Behrstock-Drutu-Sapir on the mapping class groups of orientable surfaces. We discuss a metric approximation property of finite subsets in coarse median spaces extending the classical result on approximation of Gromov hyperbolic spaces by trees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1866

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zbMATH Keywords

property (T)outer automorphism groupcoarse median spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) 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) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

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