Margulis Lemma, entropy and free products
Differential Geometry
2012-05-25 v2
Abstract
We prove a Margulis' Lemma \`a la Besson Courtois Gallot, for manifolds whose fundamental group is a nontrivial free product A*B, without 2-torsion. Moreover, if A*B is torsion-free we give a lower bound for the homotopy systole in terms of upper bounds on the diameter and the volume entropy. We also provide examples and counterexamples showing the optimality of our assumption. Finally we give two applications of this result: a finiteness theorem and a volume estimate for reducible manifolds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.1619,
title = {Margulis Lemma, entropy and free products},
author = {Filippo Cerocchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1619},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Corrected typos; revised argument for examples 5.4 and 5.5