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Largest acylindrical actions of free-by-cyclic groups

Group Theory 2025-12-08 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that every finitely generated free-by-cyclic group GG admits a largest acylindrical action on a hyperbolic space XX obtained by coning off maximal product subgroups of GG. We characterise Morse geodesics of GG as those that project to quasigeodesics in XX, thus showing that all finitely generated free-by-cyclic groups are Morse local-to-global. We also characterise the stable and strongly quasiconvex subgroups of GG. Finally, we compute the Morse boundary for \{finitely generated free\}-by-cyclic groups with unipotent and polynomially growing monodromy.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05293,
  title  = {Largest acylindrical actions of free-by-cyclic groups},
  author = {Monika Kudlinska and Harry Petyt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05293},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 1 figure

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