Cannon-Thurston maps for hyperbolic free group extensions

DOI10.1007/S11856-016-1426-2zbMATH Open1361.20030arXiv1506.06974OpenAlexW2964348177MaRDI QIDQ503266FDOQ503266

Authors: Spencer Dowdall, Ilya Kapovich, Samuel J. Taylor 

Publication date: 11 January 2017

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

Abstract: This paper gives a detailed analysis of the Cannon--Thurston maps associated to a general class of hyperbolic free group extensions. Let $F_N$ denote a free groups of finite rank $Nge3$ and consider a emph{convex cocompact} subgroup $GammaleOut(F_N)$, i.e. one for which the orbit map from $Gamma$ into the free factor complex of $F_N$ is a quasi-isometric embedding. The subgroup $Gamma$ determines an extension $E_{G}amma$ of $F_N$, and the main theorem of Dowdall--Taylor cite{DT1} states that in this situation $E_{G}amma$ is hyperbolic if and only if $Gamma$ is purely atoroidal. Here, we give an explicit geometric description of the Cannon--Thurston maps $partial{F}_{N}opartial{E}_{G}amma$ for these hyperbolic free group extensions, the existence of which follows from a general result of Mitra. In particular, we obtain a uniform bound on the multiplicity of the Cannon--Thurston map, showing that this map has multiplicity at most $2N$. This theorem generalizes the main result of Kapovich and Lustig cite{KapLusCT} which treats the special case where $Gamma$ is infinite cyclic. We also answer a question of Mahan Mitra by producing an explicit example of a hyperbolic free group extension for which the natural map from the boundary of $Gamma$ to the space of laminations of the free group (with the Chabauty topology) is not continuous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06974

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupslaminationsGromov boundaryhyperbolic groupsCannon-Thurston maphyperbolic group extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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