Entropy and finiteness of groups with acylindrical splittings

DOI10.4171/GGD/611arXiv1711.06210MaRDI QIDQ6294064FDOQ6294064

Authors: Filippo Cerocchi, Andrea Sambusetti 

Publication date: 16 November 2017

Abstract: We prove that there exists a positive, explicit function $F(k,E)$ such that, for any group $G$ admitting a $k$-acylindrical splitting and any generating set $S$ of $G$ with $mathrmEnt(G,S)<E$, we have $|S|leqF(k,E)$. We deduce corresponding finiteness results for classes of groups possessing acylindrical splittings and acting geometrically with bounded entropy: for instance, $D$-quasiconvex $k$-malnormal amalgamated products acting on $delta$-hyperbolic spaces or on $CAT(0)$-spaces with entropy bounded by $E$. A number of finiteness results for interesting families of Riemannian or metric spaces with bounded entropy and diameter also follow: Riemannian 2-orbifolds, non-geometric $3$-manifolds, higher dimensional graph manifolds and cusp-decomposable manifolds, ramified coverings and, more generally, CAT(0)-groups with negatively curved splittings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

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