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We provide negative answers to questions posed by Durham, Hagen, and Sisto on the existence of boundary maps for some hierarchically hyperbolic spaces, namely maps from right-angled Artin groups to mapping class groups. We also prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Sarah C. Mousley

We show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, i.e. for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Mahan Mj

Using the Birmanexact sequence for pure mapping class groups, we construct a universal Cannon--Thurston map onto the boundary of a curve complex for a surface with punctures we call surviving curve complex. Along the way we prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Funda Gültepe , Christopher J Leininger , Witsarut Pho-On

Given a metric (graph) bundle $X$ over $B$ where all the fibres are strongly relatively hyperbolic and nonelementary we show that, under certain conditions, $X$ is strongly hyperbolic relative to a collection of maximal cone-subbundles of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Swathi Krishna

We introduce an obstruction to the existence of a coarse embedding of a given group or space into a hyperbolic group, or more generally into a hyperbolic graph of bounded degree. The condition we consider is "admitting exponentially many…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 David Hume , Alessandro Sisto

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian punctured surface groups without accidental parabolics. In this note we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-11 Shubhabrata Das , Mahan Mj

In 1980's, Thurston established a combinatorial characterization for post-critically finite rational maps. This criterion was then extended by Cui, Jiang, and Sullivan to sub-hyperbolic rational maps. The goal of this paper is to present a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-25 Gaofei Zhang , Yunping Jiang

We prove the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for simply and doubly degenerate surface Kleinian groups. As a consequence we prove that connected limit sets of finitely generated Kleinian groups are locally connected.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Mahan Mj

We introduce the notion of manifolds of amalgamation geometry and its generalization, split geometry. We show that the limit set of any surface group of split geometry is locally connected, by constructing a natural Cannon-Thurston map.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Mahan Mj

We show that for a strongly convergent sequence of purely loxodromic finitely generated Kleinian groups with incompressible ends, Cannon-Thurston maps, viewed as maps from a fixed base limit set to the Riemann sphere, converge uniformly.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Mahan Mj , Caroline Series

In this article, we study acylindrical graphs of groups, local quasiconvexity, and Cannon-Thurston maps in the setting of totally disconnected locally compact (TDLC) hyperbolic groups, extending several fundamental notions and results from…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Swarnali Datta , Arunava Mandal , Ravi Tomar

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian surface groups. In this paper we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination whenever the Cannon-Thurston map is not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Mahan Mj

We give an alternative proof of the Bestvina--Feighn combination theorem for trees hyperbolic spaces and describe uniform quasigeodesics in such spaces. As one of the applications, we prove the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Michael Kapovich , Pranab Sardar

We use the theory of self-similar groups to enumerate all combinatorial classes of non-exceptional quadratic Thurston maps with fewer than five postcritical points. The enumeration relies on our computation that the corresponding maps on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Gregory Kelsey , Russell Lodge

We prove that the canonical Thurston obstruction for a sub-hyperbolic semi-rational branched covering exists if the branched covering is not CLH-equivalent to a rational map.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Tao Chen , Yunping Jiang

In genus two and higher, the fundamental group of a closed surface acts naturally on the curve complex of the surface with one puncture. Combining ideas from previous work of Kent--Leininger--Schleimer and Mitra, we construct a universal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-31 Christopher J. Leininger , Mahan Mj , Saul Schleimer

We study relations between maps between relatively hyperbolic groups/spaces and quasisymmetric embeddings between their boundaries. More specifically, we establish a correspondence between (not necessarily coarsely surjective)…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-14 John M. Mackay , Alessandro Sisto

Universal circles, introduced by Thurston and Calegari--Dunfield, are not well understood in general. Recently, the author together with Taylor showed that Anosov foliations with branching admit nonconjugate universal circles. We continue…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-26 Ellis Buckminster

A Thurston map is a branched covering map from $\S^2$ to $\S^2$ with a finite postcritical set. We associate a natural Gromov hyperbolic graph $\G=\G(f,\mathcal C)$ with an expanding Thurston map $f$ and a Jordan curve $\mathcal C$ on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Qian Yin

We show that for a strongly convergent sequence of geometrically finite Kleinian groups with geometrically finite limit, the Cannon-Thurston maps of limit sets converge uniformly. If however the algebraic and geometric limits differ, as in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-20 Mahan Mj , Caroline Series