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Uniform exponential growth for groups with proper product actions on hyperbolic spaces

Group Theory 2024-07-23 v3

Abstract

This paper studies the locally uniform exponential growth and product set growth for a finitely generated group GG acting properly on a finite product of hyperbolic spaces. Under the assumption of coarsely dense orbits or shadowing property on factors, we prove that any finitely generated non-virtually abelian subgroup has uniform exponential growth. These assumptions are fulfilled in many hierarchically hyperbolic groups, including mapping class groups, specially cubulated groups and BMW groups. Moreover, if GG acts weakly acylindrically on each factor, we show that, with two exceptional classes of subgroups, GG has uniform product set growth. As corollaries, this gives a complete classification of subgroups with product set growth for any group acting discretely on a simply connected manifold with pinched negative curvature, for groups acting acylindrically on trees, and for 3-manifold groups.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08400,
  title  = {Uniform exponential growth for groups with proper product actions on hyperbolic spaces},
  author = {Renxing Wan and Wenyuan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08400},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

32 pages, 4 figures. Corrections and supplements have been made in response to referee comments

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