Transitivity degrees of countable groups and acylindrical hyperbolicity

DOI10.1007/S11856-016-1411-9zbMATH Open1398.20057arXiv1501.04182OpenAlexW2963136159MaRDI QIDQ503239FDOQ503239

Michael Hull, Denis Osin

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that every countable acylindrically hyperbolic group admits a highly transitive action with finite kernel. This theorem uniformly generalizes many previously known results and allows us to answer a question of Garion and Glassner on the existence of highly transitive faithful actions of mapping class groups. It also implies that in various geometric and algebraic settings, the transitivity degree of an infinite group can only take two values, namely $1$ and $infty$. Here by transitivity degree of a group we mean the supremum of transitivity degrees of its faithful permutation representations. Further, for any countable group $G$ admitting a highly transitive faithful action, we prove the following dichotomy: Either $G$ contains a normal subgroup isomorphic to the infinite alternating group or $G$ resembles a free product from the model theoretic point of view. We apply this theorem to obtain new results about universal theory and mixed identities of acylindrically hyperbolic groups. Finally, we discuss some open problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04182

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupstransitive actionsacylindrically hyperbolic groupscountable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22)

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