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Bounded geometry in relatively hyperbolic groups

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that, if a group is relatively hyperbolic, the parabolic subgroups are virtually nilpotent if and only if there exists a hyperbolic space with bounded geometry on which it acts geometrically finitely. This provides, by use of M. Bonk and O. Schramm embedding theorem, a very short proof of the finiteness of asymptotic dimension of relatively hyperbolic groups with virtually nilpotent parabolic subgroups (which is known to imply Novikov conjectures

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@article{arxiv.math/0411435,
  title  = {Bounded geometry in relatively hyperbolic groups},
  author = {F. Dahmani and A. Yaman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411435},
  year   = {2007}
}