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In this paper we study the generic, i.e., typical, behavior of finitely generated subgroups of hyperbolic groups and also the generic behavior of the word problem for amenable groups. We show that a random set of elements of a nonelementary…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-06 Robert Gilman , Alexei Miasnikov , Denis Osin

This paper describes some generalizations of the results presented in the book "Geometry of defining Relations in Groups" , of A.Yu.Ol'shanskii to the case of non-cyclic torsion-free hyperbolic groups. In particular, it is proved that for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Olga Kulikova

Each free homotopy class of directed closed curves on a surface with boundary can be described by a cyclic reduced word in the generators of the fundamental group and their inverses. The word length is the number of letters of the cyclic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Moira Chas , Keren Li , Bernard Maskit

In this note, we clarify that the boundary criterion for relative cubulation of the first author and Groves works even when the peripheral subgroups are not one-ended. Specifically, if the boundary criterion is satisfied for a relatively…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Eduard Einstein , Suraj Krishna MS , Thomas Ng

We exhibit free-by-cyclic groups containing non-free locally-free subgroups, including some word hyperbolic examples. We also show that these groups are not subgroup separable. We use Bestvina-Brady Morse theory in our arguments.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Ian J. Leary , Graham A. Niblo , Daniel T. Wise

Based on the work of Farb, Bowditch, and Groves-Manning on discrete relatively hyperbolic groups, we introduce an approach to relative hyperbolicity for totally disconnected locally compact (TDLC) groups. For compactly generated TDLC…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Swarnali Datta , Arunava Mandal , Ravi Tomar

The Poisson boundary of a group G with a probability measure \mu is the space of ergodic components of the time shift in the path space of the associated random walk. Via a generalization of the classical Poisson formula it gives an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim A. Kaimanovich

We characterize those 1-ended word hyperbolic groups whose Gromov boundaries are homeomorphic to trees of graphs (i.e. to inverse limits of graphs that have particularly simple finitary descriptions). These are groups with the simplest…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nima Hoda , Jacek Świątkowski

We give a group cohomological description of the \v{C}ech cohomology of the Bowditch boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group pair, generalizing a result of Bestvina-Mess about hyperbolic groups. In case of a relatively hyperbolic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Jason Fox Manning , Oliver Wang

We study relatively hyperbolic group pairs whose boundaries are Schottky sets. We characterize the groups that have boundaries where the Schottky sets have incidence graphs with 1 or 2 components.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Peter Haïssinsky , Luisa Paoluzzi , Genevieve Walsh

In this note we use Yaman's dynamical characterization of relative hyperbolicity to prove a theorem of Bowditch about relatively hyperbolic pairs $(G,\mathcal{H})$ with $G$ hyperbolic. Our proof additionally gives a description of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Jason Fox Manning

In this paper we prove a general structure theorem for relatively hyperbolic groups (with arbitrary peripheral subgroups) acting naive convex co-compactly on properly convex domains in real projective space. We also establish a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Mitul Islam , Andrew Zimmer

We relate the topology of the Morse boundary of a group to geometric and algorithmic properties of the group. In particular, we show that a group has $\sigma$-compact Morse boundary if and only if it is Morse local-to-global. We also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Carolyn Abbott , Stefanie Zbinden

We describe the kernel of the canonical map from the Floyd boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group to its Bowditch boundary. Using our methods we then prove that a finitely generated group $H$ admitting a quasi-isometric map $\phi$ into a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-07 V. Gerasimov , L. Potyagailo

We prove that the Poisson boundary of a random walk with finite entropy on a non-elementary hyperbolic group can be identified with its hyperbolic boundary, without assuming any moment condition on the measure. We also extend our method to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Kunal Chawla , Behrang Forghani , Joshua Frisch , Giulio Tiozzo

The study of geometric group theory has suggested several theorems related to subdivision tilings that have a natural hyperbolic structure. However, few examples exist. We construct subdivision tilings for the complement of every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Brian C. Rushton

We introduce ideas from geometric group theory related to boundaries of groups. This is a mostly expository paper. We consider the visual boundary of a free abelian group, and show that it is an uncountable set with the trivial topology.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Kyle Kitzmiller , Matt Rathbun

We prove a topological stability result for the actions of hyperbolic groups on their Bowditch boundaries. More precisely, we show that a sufficiently small perturbation of the standard boundary action, if assumed on each parabolic subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kathryn Mann , Jason Fox Manning , Theodore Weisman

We show that if $G$ is a non-elementary word hyperbolic group, mapping class group of a hyperbolic surface or the outer automorphism group of a nonabelian free group then $G$ has $2^{\aleph_0}$ many continuous ergodic invariant random…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Lewis Bowen , Rostislav Grigorchuk , Rostyslav Kravchenko

We show that if a group is not virtually cyclic and is hyperbolic relative to a family of proper subgroups, then it has a hyperbolically embedded subgroup which contains a finitely generated non-abelian free group as a finite index…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-23 Yoshifumi Matsuda , Shin-ichi Oguni , Saeko Yamagata