scholarly journals Novikov Conjectures and Relative Hyperbolicity

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Goldfarb

We consider a class of relatively hyperbolic groups in the sense of Gromov and use an argument modeled after Carlsson-Pedersen to prove Novikov conjectures for these groups. This proof is related to [16,17] which dealt with arithmetic lattices in rank one symmetric spaces and some other arithmetic groups of higher rank. Here whe view the rank one lattices in this different larger context of relativve hyperbolicity which also inclues fundamental groups of pinched hyperbolic manifolds. Another large family of groups from this class is produced using combinatorial hyperbolization techniques.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (742) ◽  
pp. 79-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Sisto

Abstract We define a new notion of contracting element of a group and we show that contracting elements coincide with hyperbolic elements in relatively hyperbolic groups, pseudo-Anosovs in mapping class groups, rank one isometries in groups acting properly on proper {\mathrm{CAT}(0)} spaces, elements acting hyperbolically on the Bass–Serre tree in graph manifold groups. We also define a related notion of weakly contracting element, and show that those coincide with hyperbolic elements in groups acting acylindrically on hyperbolic spaces and with iwips in {\mathrm{Out}(F_{n})} , {n\geq 3} . We show that each weakly contracting element is contained in a hyperbolically embedded elementary subgroup, which allows us to answer a problem in [16]. We prove that any simple random walk in a non-elementary finitely generated subgroup containing a (weakly) contracting element ends up in a non-(weakly-)contracting element with exponentially decaying probability.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (757) ◽  
pp. 197-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Drimbe ◽  
Daniel Hoff ◽  
Adrian Ioana

AbstractWe prove that if Γ is an icc irreducible lattice in a product of connected non-compact rank one simple Lie groups with finite center, then the {\mathrm{II}_{1}} factor {L(\Gamma)} is prime. In particular, we deduce that the {\mathrm{II}_{1}} factors associated to the arithmetic groups {\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{d}])} and {\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}[S^{-1}])} are prime for any square-free integer {d\geq 2} with {d\not\equiv 1~{}(\operatorname{mod}\,4)} and any finite non-empty set of primes S. This provides the first examples of prime {\mathrm{II}_{1}} factors arising from lattices in higher rank semisimple Lie groups. More generally, we describe all tensor product decompositions of {L(\Gamma)} for icc countable groups Γ that are measure equivalent to a product of non-elementary hyperbolic groups. In particular, we show that {L(\Gamma)} is prime, unless Γ is a product of infinite groups, in which case we prove a unique prime factorization result for {L(\Gamma)}.


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (07) ◽  
pp. 1137-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLIVER GOODMAN ◽  
MICHAEL SHAPIRO

Viewing Dehn's algorithm as a rewriting system, we generalize to allow an alphabet containing letters which do not necessarily represent group elements. This extends the class of groups for which the algorithm solves the word problem to include finitely generated nilpotent groups, many relatively hyperbolic groups including geometrically finite groups and fundamental groups of certain geometrically decomposable 3-manifolds. The class has several nice closure properties. We also show that if a group has an infinite subgroup and one of exponential growth, and they commute, then it does not admit such an algorithm. We dub these Cannon's algorithms.


2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 345-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Fujiwara

We prove asymptotically isometric, coarsely geodesic metrics on a toral relatively hyperbolic group are coarsely equal. The theorem applies to all lattices in SO (n, 1). This partly verifies a conjecture by Margulis. In the case of hyperbolic groups/spaces, our result generalizes a theorem by Furman and a theorem by Krat. We discuss an application to the isospectral problem for the length spectrum of Riemannian manifolds. The positive answer to this problem has been known for several cases. Most of them have hyperbolic fundamental groups. We do not solve the isospectral problem in the original sense, but prove the universal covers are (1, C)-quasi-isometric if the fundamental group is a toral relatively hyperbolic group.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (08) ◽  
pp. 1517-1533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Kharlampovich ◽  
Alexei Myasnikov

We show that the Diophantine problem (decidability of equations) is undecidable in free associative algebras over any field and in the group algebras over any field of a wide variety of torsion free groups, including toral relatively hyperbolic groups, right-angled Artin groups, commutative transitive groups, the fundamental groups of various graph groups, etc.


Author(s):  
Jacob Russell ◽  
Davide Spriano ◽  
Hung Cong Tran

AbstractWe show the mapping class group, $${{\,\mathrm{CAT}\,}}(0)$$ CAT ( 0 ) groups, the fundamental groups of closed 3-manifolds, and certain relatively hyperbolic groups have a local-to-global property for Morse quasi-geodesics. This allows us to generalize combination theorems of Gitik for quasiconvex subgroups of hyperbolic groups to the stable subgroups of these groups. In the case of the mapping class group, this gives combination theorems for convex cocompact subgroups. We show a number of additional consequences of this local-to-global property, including a Cartan–Hadamard type theorem for detecting hyperbolicity locally and discreteness of translation length of conjugacy classes of Morse elements with a fixed gauge. To prove the relatively hyperbolic case, we develop a theory of deep points for local quasi-geodesics in relatively hyperbolic spaces, extending work of Hruska.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 599-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Guirardel ◽  
Gilbert Levitt

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 97-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
IGOR BELEGRADEK ◽  
ANDRZEJ SZCZEPAŃSKI

We generalize some results of Paulin and Rips-Sela on endomorphisms of hyperbolic groups to relatively hyperbolic groups, and in particular prove the following. • If G is a nonelementary relatively hyperbolic group with slender parabolic subgroups, and either G is not co-Hopfian or Out (G) is infinite, then G splits over a slender group. • If H is a nonparabolic subgroup of a relatively hyperbolic group, and if any isometric H-action on an ℝ-tree is trivial, then H is Hopfian. • If G is a nonelementary relatively hyperbolic group whose peripheral subgroups are finitely generated, then G has a nonelementary relatively hyperbolic quotient that is Hopfian. • Any finitely presented group is isomorphic to a finite index subgroup of Out (H) for some group H with Kazhdan property (T). (This sharpens a result of Ollivier–Wise).


2013 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 451-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRADLEY W. GROFF

We demonstrate the quasi-isometry invariance of two important geometric structures for relatively hyperbolic groups: the coned space and the cusped space. As applications, we produce a JSJ-decomposition for relatively hyperbolic groups which is invariant under quasi-isometries and outer automorphisms, as well as a related splitting of the quasi-isometry groups of relatively hyperbolic groups.


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