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Non-existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for hierarchically hyperbolic groups

Geometric Topology 2026-07-24 v1 Group Theory Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that Cannon--Thurston maps do not exist for hyperbolic normal subgroups of hierarchically hyperbolic groups, both for Morse and hierarchically hyperbolic boundaries. This result includes a large class of normal subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface of genus g2g\geq 2. As a corollary, we also prove a non-existence result for subgroups of most free by cyclic groups. Moreover, we prove that the visual boundary of a CAT(0) group with isolated flats is homeomorphic to the relatively hierarchically hyperbolic boundary of the space it acts on, thus recovering a previously known non-existence result for CAT(0) groups with isolated flats.

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@article{arxiv.2607.22447,
  title  = {Non-existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for hierarchically hyperbolic groups},
  author = {Funda Gültepe and Ravi Tomar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22447},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages. Comments are welcome!