Acylindrical hyperbolicity of groups acting on quasi-median graphs and equations in graph products (Q2035112)

Summary: In this paper we study group actions on quasi-median graphs, or ``CAT(0) prism complexes'', generalising the notion of CAT(0) cube complexes. We consider hyperplanes in a quasi-median graph \(X\) and define the \textit{contact graph} \(\mathcal{C}X\) for these hyperplanes. We show that \(\mathcal{C}X\) is always quasi-isometric to a tree, generalising a result of Hagen [18], and that under certain conditions a group action \(G\curvearrowright X\) induces an \textit{acylindrical} action \(G\curvearrowright\mathcal{C}X\), giving a quasi-median analogue of a result of Behrstock, Hagen and Sisto [5]. As an application, we exhibit an acylindrical action of a graph product on a quasi-tree, generalising results of Kim and Koberda for right-angled Artin groups [20, 21]. We show that for many graph products \(G\), the action we exhibit is the ``largest'' acylindrical action of \(G\) on a hyperbolic metric space. We use this to show that the graph products of equationally noetherian groups over finite graphs of girth \(\geq 6\) are equationally noetherian, generalising a result of Sela [27].