Central extensions and bounded cohomology

DOI10.5802/AHL.164MaRDI QIDQ6093066zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Frigerio, Alessandro Sisto

Publication date 6 September 2023

Published in Annales Henri Lebesgue (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01146

zbMATH Keywords

central extensioncohomologyEuler classquasi-isometrically trivial extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: It was shown by Gersten that a central extension of a finitely generated group is quasi-isometrically trivial provided that its Euler class is bounded. We say that a finitely generated group $G$ satisfies Property QITB (quasi-isometrically trivial implies bounded) if the Euler class of any quasi-isometrically trivial central extension of $G$ is bounded. We exhibit a finitely generated group $G$ which does not satisfy Property QITB. This answers a question by Neumann and Reeves, and provides partial answers to related questions by Wienhard and Blank. We also prove that Property QITB holds for a large class of groups, including amenable groups, right-angled Artin groups, relatively hyperbolic groups with amenable peripheral subgroups, and 3-manifold groups. Finally, we show that Property QITB holds for every finitely presented group if a conjecture by Gromov on bounded primitives of differential forms holds as well.

Review text

Let \(1\rightarrow Z \xrightarrow{\iota} E \xrightarrow{\pi} G \rightarrow 1\) be a central extension of a group \(G\) over \(Z\). This extension is called quasi-isometrically trivial if there exists a quasi-isometry \(f: E \rightarrow Z \times G\) such that \(\pi=\pi_{2} \circ f\) where \(\pi_{2}: Z \times G \rightarrow G\) is the projection on the second factor. It was shown by \textit{S. M. Gersten} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 2, No. 3, 307--326 (1992; Zbl 0762.57001)] that a central extension is quasi-isometrically trivial provided that its Euler class is bounded. A finitely generated group \(G\) satisfies Property \(\mathsf{QITB}\) (quasi-isometrically trivial implies bounded) if the Euler class of any quasi-isometrically trivial central extension of \(G\) is bounded. The authors exhibit a finitely generated group \(G\) which does not satisfy Property \(\mathsf{QITB}\). This answers a question by \textit{W. D. Neumann} and \textit{L. Reeves} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 6, No. 3, 313--324 (1996; Zbl 0928.20028)] and provides partial answers to related questions proposed in [\textit{A. Wienhard}, Pure Appl. Math. Q. 8, No. 2, 479--496 (2012; Zbl 1253.58002); \textit{M. Blank}, Geom. Dedicata 184, 27--66 (2016; Zbl 1361.55009)]. The authors also prove that Property \(\mathsf{QITB}\) holds for a large class of groups, including amenable groups, right-angled Artin groups, relatively hyperbolic groups with amenable peripheral subgroups and 3-manifold groups.

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