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Contracting Boundary of a Cusped Space

Group Theory 2021-02-05 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let GG be a finitely generated group. Cashen and Mackay proved that if the contracting boundary of GG with the topology of fellow travelling quasi-geodesics is compact then GG is a hyperbolic group. Let H\mathcal{H} be a finite collection of finitely generated infinite index subgroups of GG. Let GhG^h be the cusped space obtained by attaching combinatorial horoballs to each left cosets of elements of H\mathcal {H}. In this article, we prove that if the combinatorial horoballs are contracting and GhG^h has compact contracting boundary then GG is hyperbolic relative to H\mathcal{H}.

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@article{arxiv.2012.08259,
  title  = {Contracting Boundary of a Cusped Space},
  author = {Abhijit Pal and Rahul Pandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08259},
  year   = {2021}
}

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