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We prove that stability -- a strong quasiconvexity property -- pulls back under proper actions on proper metric spaces. This result has several applications, including that convex cocompact subgroups of both mapping class groups and outer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Tarik Aougab , Matthew Gentry Durham , Samuel J. Taylor

We prove that the group of outer automorphisms of the free Coxeter group $W_n$ is acylindrically hyperbolic in the sense of Osin. As an application, we observe that any CAT(0) space admitting a geometric action by Out($W_n$) must contain a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Brendan Burns Healy

We consider a geometric property of the closest-points projection to a geodesic in Teichm\"uller space: the projection is called contracting if arbitrarily large balls away from the geodesic project to sets of bounded diameter. (This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Yair Minsky

We show that the horoboundary of outer space for the Lipschitz metric is a quotient of Culler and Morgan's classical boundary, two trees being identified whenever their translation length functions are homothetic in restriction to the set…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Camille Horbez

For any non-elementary hyperbolic group $\Gamma$, we find an outer automorphism invariant geodesic bicombing for the space of metric structures on $\Gamma$ equipped with a symmetrized version of the Thurston metric on Techim\"uller space.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Stephen Cantrell , Eduardo Reyes

We analyze the coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichm\"uller space, focusing on applications to its synthetic geometry (in particular the behavior of geodesics). We settle the question of the strong relative hyperbolicity of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jeffrey Brock , Howard Masur

Geodesic contraction in vector-valued differential equations is readily verified by linearized operators which are uniformly negative-definite in the Riemannian metric. In the infinite-dimensional setting, however, such analysis is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Anand Srinivasan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We propose a definition for the length of closed geodesics in a globally hyperbolic maximal compact (GHMC) Anti-De Sitter manifold. We then prove that the number of closed geodesics of length less than $R$ grows exponentially fast with $R$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Olivier Glorieux

Let $M=S^n/ \Gamma$ and $h \in \pi_1(M)$ be a non-trivial element of finite order $p$, where the integers $n, p\geq2$ and $\Gamma$ is a finite abelian group which acts on the sphere freely and isometrically, therefore $M$ is diffeomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yuchen Wang

In this paper, we focus on homogeneous spaces which are constructed from two strongly isotropy irreducible spaces, and prove that any geodesic orbit metric on these spaces is naturally reductive.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Huibin Chen , Zhiqi Chen , Fuhai Zhu

A geodesic bicombing on a metric space selects for every pair of points a geodesic connecting them. We prove existence and uniqueness results for geodesic bicombings satisfying different convexity conditions. In combination with recent work…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Dominic Descombes , Urs Lang

We study the metric and topological properties of the space $\mathscr{D}(G)$ of left-invariant hyperbolic pseudometrics on the non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$ that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, up to rough similarity. This space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Eduardo Oregón-Reyes

In 1981 Masur proved the existence of a dense geodesic in the moduli space for a Teichm\"uller space. We prove an analogue theorem for reduced Outer Space endowed with the Lipschitz metric. We also prove two results possibly of independent…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Yael Algom-Kfir , Catherine Pfaff

We study those fully irreducible outer automorphisms phi of a finite rank free group F_r which are ``parageometric'', meaning that the attracting fixed point of phi in the boundary of outer space is a geometric R-tree with respect to the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Handel , Lee Mosher

We prove that quasi-isometries of horospherical products of hyperbolic spaces are geometrically rigid in the sense that they are uniformly close to product maps, this is a generalisation of the result obtained by Eskin, Fisher and Whyte in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Tom Ferragut

We prove analogues of Royden's Theorem for the Lipschitz metrics of Outer Space, namely that Isom(CV_n) is Out(F_n).

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Stefano Francaviglia , Armando Martino

We characterize which cobounded quasigeodesics in the Teichmueller space T of a closed surface are at bounded distance from a geodesic. More generally, given a cobounded lipschitz path gamma in T, we show that gamma is a quasigeodesic with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lee Mosher

We prove hyperbolic 3-manifolds are geometrically inflexible: a unit quasiconformal deformation of a Kleinian group extends to an equivariant bi-Lipschitz diffeomorphism between quotients whose pointwise bi-Lipschitz constant decays…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jeffrey Brock , Kenneth Bromberg

We consider an Orlicz space based cohomology for metric (measured) spaces with bounded geometry. We prove the quasi-isometry invariance for a general Young function. In the hyperbolic case, we prove that the degree one cohomology can be…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Matias Carrasco Piaggio

Let $\Gamma$ be a hyperbolic group and G be the isometry group of a Gromov-hyperbolic, properand geodesic metric space. We study the action of the outer automorphism group Out($\Gamma$) onthe set X($\Gamma$,G) of conjugacy classes of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Ulysse Remfort-Aurat