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We develop a homotopy theory of directed graphs based on cubical homotopy groups, also referred to as A-groups or reduced GLMY homotopy groups. Localizing the category of directed graphs at morphisms that induce isomorphisms on these groups…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Briony Eldridge , Sergei O. Ivanov , Xiaomeng Xu , Shing-Tung Yau , Mengmeng Zhang

In this note, we announce the first results on quasi-isometric rigidity of non-nilpotent polycyclic groups. In particular, we prove that any group quasi-isometric to the three dimenionsional solvable Lie group Sol is virtually a lattice in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alex Eskin , David Fisher , Kevin Whyte

We give a new characterisation of virtually free groups using graph minors. Namely, we prove that a finitely generated, infinite group is virtually free if and only if for any finite generating set, the corresponding Cayley graph is minor…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 A. Khukhro

We find an upper bound for the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic metric space with a set of geodesics satisfying a certain boundedness condition studied by Bowditch. The primary example is a collection of tight geodesics on the curve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gregory Bell , Koji Fujiwara

For every $n \geq 1$, let $(\mathrm{FW}_n)$ denote the fixed-point property for median graphs of cubical dimension $n$ (or equivalently, for CAT(0) cube complexes of dimension $n$). In this article, we construct explicit examples of groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Anthony Genevois

We show that the (topological) full group of a minimal pseudogroup over the Cantor set satisfies various rigidity phenomena of topological dynamical and combinatorial nature. Our main result applies to its possible homomorphisms into other…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Nicolás Matte Bon

If H is a flat group of automorphisms of finite rank n of a totally disconnected, locally compact group G, then each orbit of H in the metric space B(G) of compact, open subgroups of G is quasi-isometric to n-dimensional euclidean space. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-08-01 Udo Baumgartner , Günter Schlichting , George A. Willis

We show that minimal length carrier graphs are not unique, but if M is in a large class of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, including the geometrically finite ones, then M has only finitely many minimal length carrier graphs and no two of them are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Michael Siler

A graph is edge-primitive if its automorphism group acts primitively on the edge set. In this short paper, we prove that a finite 2-arc-transitive edge-primitive graph has almost simple automorphism group if it is neither a cycle nor a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Zaiping Lu

It is shown, for a given graph group $G$, that the fixed point subgroup Fix$\,\varphi$ is finitely generated for every endomorphism $\varphi$ of $G$ if and only if $G$ is a free product of free abelian groups. The same conditions hold for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Emanuele Rodaro , Pedro V. Silva , Mihalis Sykiotis

We show that the groupoids of two directed graphs are isomorphic if and only if the two graphs are orbit equivalent by an orbit equivalence that preserves isolated eventually periodic points. We also give a complete description of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Toke Meier Carlsen , Marius Lie Winger

We describe the outer automorphism group of a one-ended fundamental group of a graph of groups, when edge groups are cyclic, and vertex groups are torsion-free with cyclic centralizers. We show that in this case the outer automorphism group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Dario Ascari , Montserrat Casals-Ruiz , Ilya Kazachkov

A class of graphs is nowhere dense if for every integer r there is a finite upper bound on the size of cliques that occur as (topological) r-minors. We observe that this tameness notion from algorithmic graph theory is essentially the…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-11-18 Hans Adler , Isolde Adler

In this paper, we consider the automorphism groups of the Cayley graph with respect to the Coxeter generators and the Davis complex of an arbitrary Coxeter group. We determine for which Coxeter groups these automorphism groups are discrete.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Graham White

This article gives an up-to-date account of the theory of discrete group actions on non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces. As an introduction of the motifs of this article, we begin by reviewing the current knowledge of possible global forms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-23 Toshiyuki Kobayashi

We associate a graph $\mathcal{N}_{G}$ with a group $G$ (called the non-nilpotent graph of $G$) as follows: take $G$ as the vertex set and two vertices are adjacent if they generate a non-nilpotent subgroup. In this paper we study the graph…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-02 Alireza Abdollahi , Mohammad Zarrin

We follow in this paper a recent line of work, consisting in characterizing the periodically rigid finitely generated groups, i.e., the groups for which every subshift of finite type which is weakly aperiodic is also strongly aperiodic. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Solène J. Esnay , Ugo Giocanti , Etienne Moutot

We study a class of finite groups $G$ which behave similarly to elementary abelian $p$-groups with $p$ prime, that is, there exists a subgroup $N$ such that all elements of $G\setminus N$ are conjugate or inverse-conjugate under $\Aut(G)$.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Lei Wang , Yin Liu

A free action of a finite group on an odd-dimensional sphere is said to be almost linear if the action restricted to each cyclic or 2-hyperelementary subgroup is conjugate to a free linear action. We begin this survey paper by reviewing the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Hansjorg Geiges , Charles B. Thomas

We give the first examples of closed fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups are distinguished from every other finitely generated, residually finite group by their finite quotients. One of the examples is also the first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Tamunonye Cheetham-West