Graphically discrete groups and rigidity
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Publication:6428880
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Authors: Alex Margolis, Sam Shepherd, Daniel J. Woodhouse 
Publication date: 8 March 2023
Abstract: We introduce the notion of graphical discreteness to group theory. A finitely generated group is graphically discrete if whenever it acts geometrically on a locally finite graph, the automorphism group of the graph is compact-by-discrete. Notable examples include finitely generated nilpotent groups, most lattices in semisimple Lie groups, and irreducible non-geometric 3-manifold groups. We show graphs of groups with graphically discrete vertex groups frequently have strong rigidity properties. We prove free products of one-ended virtually torsion-free graphically discrete groups are action rigid within the class of virtually torsion-free groups. We also prove quasi-isometric rigidity for many hyperbolic graphs of groups whose vertex groups are closed hyperbolic manifold groups and whose edge groups are non-elementary quasi-convex subgroups. This includes the case of two hyperbolic 3-manifold groups amalgamated along a quasi-convex malnormal non-abelian free subgroup. We provide several additional examples of graphically discrete groups and illustrate this property is not a commensurability invariant.
Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Rigidity in locally compact groups (22D50)
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