Surface group amalgams that (don't) act on 3-manifolds

DOI10.1353/AJM.2020.0020MaRDI QIDQ6286237arXivFDO

Authors G. Christopher Hruska, Emily Stark, Hung Cong Tran

Publication date 3 May 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: We determine which amalgamated products of surface groups identified over multiples of simple closed curves are not fundamental groups of 3-manifolds. We prove each surface amalgam considered is virtually the fundamental group of a 3-manifold. We prove that each such surface group amalgam is abstractly commensurable to a right-angled Coxeter group from a related family. In an appendix, we determine the quasi-isometry classes among these surface amalgams and their related right-angled Coxeter groups.

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