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Embedding relatively hyperbolic groups in products of trees

Geometric Topology 2014-10-01 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We show that a relatively hyperbolic group quasi-isometrically embeds in a product of finitely many trees if the peripheral subgroups do, and we provide an estimate on the minimal number of trees needed. Applying our result to the case of 3-manifolds, we show that fundamental groups of closed 3-manifolds have linearly controlled asymptotic dimension at most 8. To complement this result, we observe that fundamental groups of Haken 3-manifolds with non-empty boundary have asymptotic dimension 2.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3008,
  title  = {Embedding relatively hyperbolic groups in products of trees},
  author = {John M. Mackay and Alessandro Sisto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3008},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

v1: 18 pages; v2: 20 pages, minor changes

R2 v1 2026-06-21T21:34:42.375Z