Planar boundaries and parabolic subgroups

DOI10.4310/MRL.2023.V30.N4.A5MaRDI QIDQ6131209zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Christopher Hruska, Genevieve S. Walsh

Publication date 4 April 2024

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07639

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov hyperbolic groupparabolic subgroupplanar boundaryrigiditysurface group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

Abstract: We study the Bowditch boundaries of relatively hyperbolic group pairs, focusing on the case where there are no cut points. We show that if $(G,mathcalP)$ is a rigid relatively hyperbolic group pair whose boundary embeds in $S^2$, then the action on the boundary extends to a convergence group action on $S^2$. More generally, if the boundary is connected and planar with no cut points, we show that every element of $mathcalP$ is virtually a surface group. This conclusion is consistent with the conjecture that such a group $G$ is virtually Kleinian. We give numerous examples to show the necessity of our assumptions.

Review text

In the paper under review the authors study the Bowditch boundaries of relatively hyperbolic group pairs, focusing on the case where there are no cut points. The main result is Theorem 8.7: Suppose \(G\) is one ended and \((G,\mathcal{P})\) is relatively hyperbolic. If \((G,\mathcal{P})\) is rigid and \(M=\partial(G,\mathcal{P})\) topologically embeds in \(S^{2}\), then the action of \(G\) on \(M\) extends to an action on \(S^{2}\) by homeomorphisms (see Definition 2.10 for a precise explanation of the terminology used). Using the previous result the authors characterize the peripheral subgroups in the one ended case, even though the action may not extend to \(S^{2}\).

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