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Let Mod(S) denote the mapping class group of a compact, orientable surface S. We prove that finitely generated subgroups of Mod(S) which are not virtually abelian have uniform exponential growth with minimal growth rate bounded below by a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-04 Johanna Mangahas

We show that given a collection $X=\{f_1$, \ldots , $f_m\}$ of pure mapping classes on a surface $S$, there is an explicit constant N, depending only on $X$, such that their Nth powers $\{f_1^N$, \ldots , $f_m^N\}$ generate the expected…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Ian Runnels

For a group $G$ we consider the classifying space $E_{\mathcal{VC}yc}(G)$ for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups. We show that an Artin group admits a finite model for $E_{\mathcal{VC}yc}(G)$ if and only if it is virtually cyclic.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Timm von Puttkamer , Xiaolei Wu

The present paper constructs unbounded quasimorphisms that are invariant under all automorphisms on free products of more than two factors and on graph products of finitely generated abelian groups. This includes many classes of right…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Bastien Karlhofer

We construct quasi-isometric embeddings from right-angled Artin groups into the outer automorphism group of a free group. These homomorphisms are in analogy with those constructed in \cite{CLM}, where the target group is the mapping class…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Samuel J. Taylor

For a hierarchically hyperbolic group, we provide sufficient conditions under which suitable powers of a finite collection of elements generate a right-angled Artin subgroup. Under additional hypotheses, we further show that this subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Sangrok Oh , Jihoon Park

We show that the mapping class group of an orientable finite type surface has uniformly exponential growth, as well as various closely related groups. This provides further evidence that mapping class groups may be linear.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James W. Anderson , Javier Aramayona , Kenneth J. Shackleton

This article is dedicated to the study of the acylindrical hyperbolicity of automorphism groups of graph products of groups. Our main result is that, if $\Gamma$ is a finite graph which contains at least two vertices and is not a join and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Anthony Genevois

We study the growth of product sets in some finite three-dimensional matrix groups. In particular, we prove two results about the group of $2\times 2$ upper triangular matrices over arbitrary finite fields: a product set estimate using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Brendan Murphy , James Wheeler

The rank of a hierarchically hyperbolic space is the maximal number of unbounded factors in a standard product region. For hierarchically hyperbolic groups, this coincides with the maximal dimension of a quasiflat. Examples for which the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Jason Behrstock , Mark F Hagen , Alessandro Sisto

We prove that residually finite mapping tori of polynomially growing automorphisms of hyperbolic groups, groups hyperbolic relative to finitely many virtually polycyclic groups, right-angled Artin groups (when the automorphism is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Naomi Andrew , Yassine Guerch , Sam Hughes , Monika Kudlinska

We show that any subgroup of a finitely generated virtually abelian group $G$ grows rationally relative to $G$, that the set of right cosets of any subgroup of $G$ grows rationally, and that the set of conjugacy classes of $G$ grows…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Alex Evetts

Even though big mapping class groups are not countably generated, certain big mapping class groups can be generated by a coarsely bounded set and have a well defined quasi-isometry type. We show that the big mapping class group of a stable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Curtis Grant , Kasra Rafi , Yvon Verberne

Artin-Tits groups act on a certain delta-hyperbolic complex, called the "additional length complex". For an element of the group, acting loxodromically on this complex is a property analogous to the property of being pseudo-Anosov for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-27 María Cumplido

We study the subgroup structure of the semigroup of finitary tropical matrices under multiplication. We show that every maximal subgroup is isomorphic to the full linear automorphism group of a related tropical polytope, and that each of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Zur Izhakian , Marianne Johnson , Mark Kambites

We address the question of determining which mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces admit nonelementary continuous actions on hyperbolic spaces. More precisely, let $\Sigma$ be a connected, orientable surface of infinite type with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Camille Horbez , Yulan Qing , Kasra Rafi

Let $N$ be a closed nonorientable surface with or without marked points. In this paper we prove that, for every finite full subgraph $\Gamma$ of $\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)$, the right-angled Artin group on $\Gamma$ can be embedded in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Takuya Katayama , Erika Kuno

We prove a conjecture of Helfgott on the structure of sets of bounded tripling in bounded rank, which states the following. Let $A$ be a finite symmetric subset of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbf{F})$ for any field $\mathbf{F}$ such that $|A^3| \leq…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Sean Eberhard , Brendan Murphy , László Pyber , Endre Szabó

We prove that an arbitrary right-angled Artin group $G$ admits a quasi-isometric group embedding into a right-angled Artin group defined by the opposite graph of a tree. Consequently, $G$ admits quasi-isometric group embeddings into a pure…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Sang-hyun Kim , Thomas Koberda

For a large class of groups, we exhibit an infinite-dimensional space of homogeneous quasimorphisms that are invariant under the action of the automorphism group. This class includes non-elementary hyperbolic groups, infinitely-ended…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Francesco Fournier-Facio , Richard D. Wade