Constructing group actions on quasi-trees and applications to mapping class groups

DOI10.1007/S10240-014-0067-4zbMATH Open1372.20029arXiv1006.1939OpenAlexW2092490925WikidataQ104126127 ScholiaQ104126127MaRDI QIDQ897004FDOQ897004

Mladen Bestvina, Kenneth W. Bromberg, Koji Fujiwara

Publication date: 16 December 2015

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quasi-tree is a geodesic metric space quasi-isometric to a tree. We give a general construction of many actions of groups on quasi-trees. The groups we can handle include non-elementary (relatively) hyperbolic groups, rank 1 CAT(0) groups, mapping class groups and Out(Fn). As an application, we show that mapping class groups act on finite products of {delta}-hyperbolic spaces so that orbit maps are quasi-isometric embeddings. We prove that mapping class groups have finite asymptotic dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1939

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsasymptotic dimensionquasi-treehyperbolic groupsCAT(0) groupsgroup actions on quasi-treesorbit maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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