Random extensions of free groups and surface groups are hyperbolic

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNV138MaRDI QIDQ5744706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel J. Taylor, Giulio Tiozzo

Publication date 19 February 2016

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02846, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/5793

zbMATH Keywords

closed oriental surfacefree groupfundamental grouphyperbolic grouprandom extensionrandom walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Abstract: In this note, we prove that a random extension of either the free group $F_N$ of rank $Nge3$ or of the fundamental group of a closed, orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $gge2$ is a hyperbolic group. Here, a random extension is one corresponding to a subgroup of either Out$(F_N)$ or Mod$(S_g)$ generated by $k$ independent random walks. Our main theorem has several applications, including that a random subgroup of a weakly hyperbolic group is free and undistorted.

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