An effective compactness theorem for Coxeter groups.

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9416-8MaRDI QIDQ964205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yvonne Lai

Publication date 15 April 2010

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2718

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsdiscrete faithful actionsfinitely presented groupssplittings over virtually solvable subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Through highly non-constructive methods, works by Bestvina, Culler, Feighn, Morgan, Paulin, Rips, Shalen, and Thurston show that if a finitely presented group does not split over a virtually solvable subgroup, then the space of its discrete and faithful actions on hyperbolic n-space, modulo conjugation, is compact for all dimensions. Although this implies that the space of hyperbolic structures of such groups has finite diameter, the known methods do not give an explicit bound. We establish such a bound for Coxeter groups. We find that either the group splits over a virtually solvable subgroup or there is a constant C and a point in hyperbolic n-space that is moved no more than C by any generator. The constant C depends only on the number of generators of the group, and is independent of the relators.

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