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 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 , then such a subgroup system can be used to construct a collection of peripheral subgroups relative to which, the extension of by the free group generated by sufficiently high powers of , 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