Coarse Alexander duality for pairs and applications
Abstract
For a group (of type ) acting properly on a coarse Poincar\'{e} duality space , Kapovich-Kleiner introduced a coarse version of Alexander duality between and its complement in . More precisely, the cohomology of with group ring coefficients is dual to a certain \v{C}ech homology group of the family of increasing neighborhoods of a -orbit in . This duality applies more generally to coarse embeddings of certain contractible simplicial complexes into coarse spaces. In this paper we introduce a relative version of this \v{C}ech homology that satisfies the Eilenberg-Steenrod Exactness Axiom, and we prove a relative version of coarse Alexander duality. As an application we provide a detailed proof of the following result, first stated by Kapovich-Kleiner. Given a -complex formed by gluing halfplanes along their boundary lines and a coarse embedding into a contractible -manifold, the complement consists of deep components that are arranged cyclically in a pattern called a Jordan cycle. We use the Jordan cycle as an invariant in proving the existence of a -manifold group that is virtually Kleinian but not itself Kleinian.
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@article{arxiv.2011.00059,
title = {Coarse Alexander duality for pairs and applications},
author = {G. Christopher Hruska and Emily Stark and Hung Cong Tran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00059},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v3: 33 pages, 3 figures; minor changes