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Rigidity and relative hyperbolicity of real hyperbolic hyperplane complements

Group Theory 2010-08-31 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

For n>3 we study spaces obtained from finite volume complete real hyperbolic n-manifolds by removing a compact totally geodesic submanifold of codimension two. We prove that their fundamental groups are relative hyperbolic, co-Hopf, biautomatic, residually hyperbolic, not K\"ahler, not isomorphic to lattices in virtually connected real Lie groups, have no nontrivial subgroups with property (T), have finite outer automorphism groups, satisfy Mostow-type Rigidity, have finite asymptotic dimension and rapid decay property, and satisfy Baum-Connes conjecture. We also characterize those lattices in real Lie groups that are isomorphic to relatively hyperbolic groups.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2324,
  title  = {Rigidity and relative hyperbolicity of real hyperbolic hyperplane complements},
  author = {Igor Belegradek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2324},
  year   = {2010}
}

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to appear in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly in the special issue in honor of Farrell and Jones

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