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Incubulable hyperbolic 3-pseudomanifold groups

Geometric Topology 2026-02-11 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We construct compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary, such that the closed 3-pseudomanifolds obtained by coning off the boundary components are negatively curved and contain locally convex subspaces whose fundamental groups have property (T). In particular, the fundamental groups of these 3-pseudomanifolds are word hyperbolic but not cubulable. We deduce that in any relative cubulation of one of these hyperbolic 3-manifold groups some hyperplane stabilizer has infinite intersection with the fundamental group of some boundary component.

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@article{arxiv.2601.02655,
  title  = {Incubulable hyperbolic 3-pseudomanifold groups},
  author = {Jason Manning and Lorenzo Ruffoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02655},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

23 pages, 7 figures, comments welcome. v2: improved exposition, added Remark 1.8 and Proposition 5.2