Divergence and quasimorphisms of right-angled Artin groups.

DOI10.1007/S00208-011-0641-8zbMATH Open1251.20036arXiv1001.3587OpenAlexW1972468321WikidataQ115018817 ScholiaQ115018817MaRDI QIDQ663221FDOQ663221

Authors: Jason A. Behrstock, Ruth Charney 

Publication date: 14 February 2012

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a group theoretic characterization of geodesics with superlinear divergence in the Cayley graph of a right-angled Artin group A(G) with connected defining graph G. We use this to determine when two points in an asymptotic cone of A(G) are separated by a cut-point. As an application, we show that if G does not decompose as the join of two subgraphs, then A(G) has an infinite-dimensional space of non-trivial quasimorphisms. By the work of Burger and Monod, this leads to a superrigidity theorem for homomorphisms from lattices into right-angled Artin groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3587

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphspresentationsright-angled Artin groupsCAT(0) complexesdivergence of geodesicsgeodesic metric spacesjoin subgroupsrank-one isometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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