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On the coarse geometry of certain right-angled Coxeter groups

Group Theory 2019-10-30 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let Γ\Gamma be a connected, triangle-free, planar graph with at least five vertices that has no separating vertices or edges. If the graph Γ\Gamma is CFS\mathcal{CFS}, we prove that the right-angled Coxeter group GΓG_\Gamma is virtually a Seifert manifold group or virtually a graph manifold group and we give a complete quasi-isometry classification of these such groups. Otherwise, we prove that GΓG_\Gamma is hyperbolic relative to a collection of CFS\mathcal{CFS} right-angled Coxeter subgroups of GΓG_\Gamma. Consequently, the divergence of GΓG_\Gamma is linear, or quadratic, or exponential. We also generalize right-angled Coxeter groups which are virtually graph manifold groups to certain high dimensional right-angled Coxeter groups (our families exist in every dimension) and study the coarse geometry of this collection. We prove that strongly quasiconvex torsion free infinite index subgroups in certain graph of groups are free and we apply this result to our right-angled Coxeter groups.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01079,
  title  = {On the coarse geometry of certain right-angled Coxeter groups},
  author = {Hoang Thanh Nguyen and Hung Cong Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01079},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

38 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes and other updates to incorporate referee comments. To appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1708.07818

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