The geometry of groups containing almost normal subgroups

Abstract: A subgroup

H l e q G

is said to be almost normal if every conjugate of

H

is commensurable to

H

. If

H

is almost normal, there is a well-defined quotient space

G / H

. We show that if a group

G

has type

F_{n + 1}

and contains an almost normal coarse

P D_{n}

subgroup

H

with

e (G / H) = i n f t y

, then whenever

G^{'}

is quasi-isometric to

G

, it contains an almost normal subgroup

H^{'}

that is quasi-isometric to

H

. Moreover, the quotient spaces

G / H

and

G^{'} / H^{'}

are quasi-isometric. This generalises a theorem of Mosher-Sageev-Whyte, who prove the case in which

G / H

is quasi-isometric to a finite valence bushy tree. Using work of Mosher, we generalise a result of Farb-Mosher to show that for many surface group extensions

G a m m a_{L}

, any group quasi-isometric to

G a m m a_{L}

is virtually isomorphic to

G a m m a_{L}

. We also prove quasi-isometric rigidity for the class of finitely presented

m a t h b b Z

-by-(

i n f t y

ended) groups.

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