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We describe structure of quasihomomorphisms from arbitrary groups to discrete groups. We show that all quasihomomorphisms are 'constructible', i.e., are obtained via certain natural operations from homomorphisms to some groups and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Koji Fujiwara , Michael Kapovich

Let G be a group admitting a non-elementary acylindrical action on a Gromov hyperbolic space (for example, a non-elementary relatively hyperbolic group, or the mapping class group of a closed hyperbolic surface, or Out(F_n) for n>1). We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-12 R. Frigerio , M. B. Pozzetti , A. Sisto

We introduce the notion of controlled Floyd separation between geodesic rays starting at the identity in a finitely generated group G. Two such geodesic rays are said to be Floyd separated with respect to quasigeodesics if the (Floyd)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Shubhabrata Das , Mahan Mj

A group with a geometric action on some hyperbolic space is necessarily word hyperbolic, but on the other hand every countable group acts (metrically) properly by isometries on a locally finite hyperbolic graph. In this paper we consider…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-29 J. O. Button

Sublinearly Morse boundaries of proper geodesic spaces are introduced by Qing, Rafi and Tiozzo. Expanding on this work, Qing and Rafi recently developed the quasi-redirecting boundary, denoted $\partial G$, to include all directions of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Jacob Garcia , Yulan Qing , Elliott Vest

We introduce the class of extended admissible groups, which include both fundamental groups of non-geometric 3-manifolds and Croke-Kleiner admissible groups. We show that the class of extended admissible groups is quasi-isometrically rigid.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Alex Margolis , Hoang Thanh Nguyen

Roughly speaking, let us say that a map between metric spaces is large scale conformal if it maps packings by large balls to large quasi-balls with limited overlaps. This quasi-isometry invariant notion makes sense for finitely generated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Pierre Pansu

We obtain a number of finiteness results for groups acting on Gromov-hyperbolic spaces. In particular we show that a torsion-free locally quasiconvex hyperbolic group has only finitely many conjugacy classes of $n$-generated one-ended…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Richard Weidmann

The Morse local-to-global property generalizes the local-to-global property for quasi-geodesics in a hyperbolic space. We show that graph products of infinite Morse local-to-global groups have the Morse local-to-global property. To achieve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Joshua Perlmutter

The class of quasi-median graphs is a generalisation of median graphs, or equivalently of CAT(0) cube complexes. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce these graphs in geometric group theory. In the first part of our work, we extend the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Anthony Genevois

We introduce the notion of graphical discreteness to group theory. A finitely generated group is graphically discrete if whenever it acts geometrically on a locally finite graph, the automorphism group of the graph is compact-by-discrete.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Alex Margolis , Sam Shepherd , Emily Stark , Daniel Woodhouse

The boundary $\partial X$ of a boundary continuous Gromov hyperbolic space $X$ carries a natural Moebius structure on the boundary. For a proper, geodesically complete, boundary continuous Gromov hyperbolic space $X$, the boundary $\partial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Kingshook Biswas , Arkajit Pal Choudhury

We study the subgroup structure of discrete groups which share cohomological properties which resemble non-negative curvature. Examples include all Gromov hyperbolic groups. We provide strong restrictions on the possible s-normal subgroups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-13 Andreas Thom

Gray and Kambites introduced a notion of hyperbolicity in the setting of semimetric spaces like digraphs or semigroups. We will prove that under a small additional geometric assumption their notion of hyperbolicity is preserved by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Matthias Hamann

We prove that every sofic approximation of a property (T) group is approximately isomorphic to one having geometric property (T), and more generally, a box space of graphs which has boundary geometric property (T) is approximately…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Vadim Alekseev , Stefan Drigalla

A Kleinian group $\Gamma < \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H^3)$ is called convex cocompact if any orbit of $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb H^3$ is quasiconvex or, equivalently, $\Gamma$ acts cocompactly on the convex hull of its limit set in $\partial \mathbb…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Matthew Cordes , Matthew Gentry Durham

In this paper, we study strongly quasiconvex subgroups in a finitely generated $3$--manifold group $\pi_1(M)$. We prove that if $M$ is a compact, orientable $3$--manifold that does not have a summand supporting the Sol geometry in its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Hoang Thanh Nguyen , Hung Cong Tran , Wenyuan Yang

In this paper we initiate a study of the topological group $PPQI(G,H)$ of pattern-preserving quasi-isometries for $G$ a hyperbolic Poincare duality group and $H$ an infinite quasiconvex subgroup of infinite index in $G$. Suppose $\partial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Mahan Mj

We prove the equivalence between a relative bottleneck property and being quasi-isometric to a tree-graded space. As a consequence, we deduce that the quasi-trees of spaces defined axiomatically by Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-26 David Hume

The groups mentioned in the title are certain matrix groups of infinite size over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$. They are built from finite classical groups and at the same time they are similar to reductive $p$-adic Lie groups. In the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Cesar Cuenca , Grigori Olshanski