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Relative hyperbolicity of free extensions of free groups

Group Theory 2025-08-25 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a free-by-free group to be relatively hyperbolic with a cusp-preserving structure. Namely, if ϕ1,,ϕk\phi_1, \ldots , \phi_k is a collection of exponentially growing outer automorphisms with a common invariant \emph{subgroup system} such that any conjugacy class in the complement of this system grows exponentially under iteration by all ϕi\phi_i, then such a subgroup system can be used to construct a collection of peripheral subgroups relative to which, the extension of F\mathbb F by the free group generated by sufficiently high powers of ϕ1,,ϕk\phi_1, \ldots , \phi_k , will be hyperbolic.

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@article{arxiv.2307.09674,
  title  = {Relative hyperbolicity of free extensions of free groups},
  author = {Pritam Ghosh and Funda Gültepe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09674},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version accepted for publication. To appear in Trans. Amer.Math.Soc