Dendrology of groups in low Q-ranks
\(\Lambda \) -treesBruhat-Tits buildingsfree product of infinite cyclic groupsfree products with amalgamationsgroups acting on simplicial treeslinear algebraic groupsmeasured foliations on singular surfacessimplicial actionssurface groups
Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Geometric group theory (20F65) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)
The work of Bass and Serre [\textit{J. P. Serre}, ``Arbres, amalgames, \(SL_ 2 \), Astérisque 46 (1977; Zbl 0369.20013)] gave much insight into the structure of groups acting on simplicial trees. It gave a topological way of looking at free products with amalgamations. In the theory of linear algebraic groups, simplicial trees arise as Bruhat-Tits buildings of rank one algebraic groups, such as \(SL_ 2\) over discretely valued fields. The authors study actions of groups (by isometries) on \(\Lambda\)-trees, where \(\Lambda\) is an ordered abelian group. Their results hold for the case that \(\Lambda\) is a subgroup of \({\mathbb{R}}\) of \({\mathbb{Q}}\)- rank\(=\dim_{{\mathbb{Q}}}\Lambda \otimes_{{\mathbb{Z}}}{\mathbb{Q}}\) at most two. They show that if a group \(\Gamma\) acts freely and without inversions on a \(\Lambda\)-tree then \(\Gamma\) is a free product of infinite cyclic groups and surface groups. Their theorem B says that every action of a surface group \(\pi_ 1(\Sigma)\) on a \(\Lambda\)-tree satisfying some natural hypotheses has an \({\mathbb{R}}\)-completion which is the action of \(\pi_ 1(\Sigma)\) on the dual tree of a measured foliation on \(\Sigma\), in the sense of Thurston's theory of measured foliations. Their theorems C and D give conditions under which a group \(\Gamma\) acting on a \(\Lambda\)-tree splits over certain subgroups. The results are derived from a general structure theorem involving concrete geometric actions on - what the authors call - measured foliations on singular surfaces which generalize both simplicial actions and the actions defined by measured foliations on surfaces.
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- Structure and rigidity in hyperbolic groups. I
- Pseudogroups of isometries of \(\mathbb{R}\) and Rips' theorem on free actions on \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees
- Character varieties and actions on products of trees
- The boundary of the outer space of a free product
- Divisible convex sets. IV: Boundary structure in dimension 3
- New examples of groups acting on real trees
- Splittings of surfaces
- Poisson boundary of groups acting on R-trees.
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- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1047622 (Why is no real title available?)
- The rank of actions on ${R}$-trees
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- Splittings of Surfaces
- Beyond Serre's ``Trees in two directions: \(\Lambda\)-trees and products of trees
- Quasicircles and the conformal group
- Quasicircles and the conformal group
- Independent generators for one-dimensional systems of isometries
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