English
Related papers

Related papers: Commensurating HNN-extensions: hierarchical hyperb…

200 papers

In the context of CAT(0) cubical groups, we develop an analogue of the theory of curve complexes and subsurface projections. The role of the subsurfaces is played by a collection of convex subcomplexes called a \emph{factor system}, and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen , Alessandro Sisto

Behrstock, Hagen, and Sisto classified 3-manifold groups admitting a hierarchically hyperbolic space structure. However, these structures were not always equivariant with respect to the group. In this paper, we classify 3-manifold groups…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Mark Hagen , Jacob Russell , Alessandro Sisto , Davide Spriano

In this work, we are concerned with hierarchically hyperbolic spaces and hierarchically hyperbolic groups. Our main result is a wide generalization of a combination theorem of Behrstock, Hagen, and Sisto. In particular, as a consequence, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Federico Berlai , Bruno Robbio

This is the second in a series of papers about torsion-free groups which act properly and cocompactly on a CAT(0) metric space with isolated flats and relatively thin triangles. Our approach is to adapt the methods of Sela and others for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Groves

Consider a hyperbolic group G and a quasiconvex subgroup H of infinite index. We construct a set-theoretic section s of the quotient map (of sets) from G to G/H such that s(G/H) is a net in G; that is, any element of G is a bounded distance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Mack

We study those groups that act properly discontinuously, cocompactly, and isometrically on CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats and the Relative Fellow Traveller Property. The groups in question include word hyperbolic CAT(0) groups as well as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-18 G. Christopher Hruska

Let X be a locally compact geodesically complete CAT(0) space and G be a discrete group acting properly and cocompactly on X. We show that G contains an element acting as a hyperbolic isometry on each indecomposable de Rham factor of X. It…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Gašper Zadnik

We give several sufficient conditions for uniform exponential growth in the setting of virtually torsion-free hierarchically hyperbolic groups. For example, any hierarchically hyperbolic group that is also acylindrically hyperbolic has…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Carolyn Abbott , Thomas Ng , Davide Spriano , Radhika Gupta , Harry Petyt

Following the research from the paper "Triangles, squares and geodesics" (arXiv:0910.5688) of Rena Levitt and Jon McCammond we investigate the properties of groups acting on CAT(0) triangle-square complexes, focusing mostly on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Mateusz Kandybo

We characterise when a rank $n$ generalised Baumslag-Solitar group is CAT(0) and when it is biautomatic.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Sam Shepherd , Motiejus Valiunas

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

We show that the free-by-cyclic groups of the form F(2)-by-Z act properly cocompactly on CAT(0) square complexes. We also show using generalised Baumslag-Solitar groups that all known groups defined by a 2-generator 1-relator presentation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Jack Button , Robert Kropholler

We prove that all hierarchically hyperbolic spaces have finite asymptotic dimension and obtain strong bounds on these dimensions. One application of this result is to obtain the sharpest known bound on the asymptotic dimension of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen , Alessandro Sisto

We study groups acting on CAT(0) square complexes. In particular we show if Y is a nonpositively curved (in the sense of A. D. Alexandrov) finite square complex and the vertex links of Y contain no simple loop consisting of five edges, then…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiangdong Xie

We discuss a problem posed by Gersten: Is every automatic group which does not contain Z+Z subgroup, hyperbolic? To study this question, we define the notion of "n-tracks of length n", which is a structure like Z+Z, and prove its existence…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Yoshiyuki Nakagawa , Makoto Tamura , Yasushi Yamashita

Let $V$ be a finite graph and let $\phi:V\rightarrow V$ be an irreducible train track map whose mapping torus has word-hyperbolic fundamental group $G$. Then $G$ acts freely and cocompactly on a CAT(0) cube complex.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Mark F. Hagen , Daniel T. Wise

We study the general theory of asymptotically CAT(0) groups, explaining why such a group has finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups, is $F_\infty$ and has solvable word problem. We provide techniques to combine asymptotically…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Aditi Kar

We show that colorable hierarchically hyperbolic groups (HHGs) admit asymptotically CAT(0) metrics, that is, roughly, metrics where the CAT(0) inequality holds up to sublinear error in the size of the triangle. We use the asymptotically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Matthew Gentry Durham , Yair Minsky , Alessandro Sisto

We build an example of a non-transitive, dynamically coherent partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism $f$ on a closed $3$-manifold with exponential growth in its fundamental group such that $f^n$ is not isotopic to the identity for all $n\neq…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Christian Bonatti , Kamlesh Parwani , Rafael Potrie

We prove that the hierarchical hull of any finite set of interior points, hierarchy rays, and boundary points in a hierarchically hyperbolic space (HHS) is quasi-median quasi-isometric to a CAT(0) cube complex of bounded dimension. Our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Matthew Gentry Durham