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Aut-invariant quasimorphisms on groups

Group Theory 2025-12-02 v2

Abstract

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 finitely generated groups, some relatively hyperbolic groups, and a class of graph products of groups that includes all right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups that are not virtually abelian. This was known for F2F_2 by a result of Brandenbursky and Marcinkowski, but is new even for free groups of higher rank, settling a question of Mikl\'os Ab\'ert. The case of graph products of finitely generated abelian groups settles a question of Michal Marcinkowski. As a consequence, we deduce that a variety of Aut-invariant norms on such groups are unbounded.

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@article{arxiv.2211.00800,
  title  = {Aut-invariant quasimorphisms on groups},
  author = {Francesco Fournier-Facio and Richard D. Wade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00800},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages. v2: added Corollary F, Section 5.4 and Section 6.3. To appear in Transactions of the AMS

R2 v1 2026-06-28T04:58:27.096Z