Random rigidity in the free group.

DOI10.2140/GT.2013.17.1707MaRDI QIDQ351712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Danny Calegari, Alden Walker

Publication date 9 July 2013

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1768

zbMATH Keywords

law of large numbersrigiditysymbolic dynamicsfree groupsGromov normstable commutator lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Commutator calculus (20F12) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Abstract: We prove a rigidity theorem for the geometry of the unit ball in random subspaces of the scl norm in B_1^H of a free group. In a free group F of rank k, a random word w of length n (conditioned to lie in [F,F]) has scl(w)=log(2k-1)n/6log(n) + o(n/log(n)) with high probability, and the unit ball in a subspace spanned by d random words of length O(n) is C^0 close to a (suitably affinely scaled) octahedron. A conjectural generalization to hyperbolic groups and manifolds (discussed in the appendix) would show that the length of a random geodesic in a hyperbolic manifold can be recovered from the bounded cohomology of the fundamental group.

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• Statistics and compression of scl
• Isometric endomorphisms of free groups.
• Random length-spectrum rigidity for free groups.
• Random extensions of free groups and surface groups are hyperbolic
• Virtual geometricity is rare

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• Simplicial volume of one-relator groups and stable commutator length
• Fixed-point property of random groups.
• Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
• Rigidity of random group actions
• Random groups contain surface subgroups
• Stable commutator length in free products of cyclic groups
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• Virtual geometricity is rare
• Random equations in free groups.
• Surface subgroups from linear programming
• Random length-spectrum rigidity for free groups.
• 3-manifolds everywhere
• Isometric endomorphisms of free groups.

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