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Boundary convex cocompactness and stability of subgroups of finitely generated groups

Group Theory 2016-08-01 v1 Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

A Kleinian group Γ<Isom(H3)\Gamma < \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H^3) is called convex cocompact if any orbit of Γ\Gamma in H3\mathbb H^3 is quasiconvex or, equivalently, Γ\Gamma acts cocompactly on the convex hull of its limit set in H3\partial \mathbb H^3. Subgroup stability is a strong quasiconvexity condition in finitely generated groups which is intrinsic to the geometry of the ambient group and generalizes the classical quasiconvexity condition above. Importantly, it coincides with quasiconvexity in hyperbolic groups and convex cocompactness in mapping class groups. Using the Morse boundary, we develop an equivalent characterization of subgroup stability which generalizes the above boundary characterization from Kleinian groups.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08899,
  title  = {Boundary convex cocompactness and stability of subgroups of finitely generated groups},
  author = {Matthew Cordes and Matthew Gentry Durham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08899},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures