On quasihomomorphisms with noncommutative targets
Group Theory
2015-07-09 v2
Abstract
We describe structure of quasihomomorphisms from arbitrary groups to discrete groups. We show that all quasihomomorphisms are 'constructible', i.e., are obtained via certain natural operations from homomorphisms to some groups and quasihomomorphisms to abelian groups. We illustrate this theorem by describing quasihomomorphisms to certain classes of groups. For instance, every unbounded quasihomomorphism to a torsion-free hyperbolic group H is either a homomorphism to a subgroup of H or is a quasihomomorphism to an infinite cyclic subgroup of H.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.7407,
title = {On quasihomomorphisms with noncommutative targets},
author = {Koji Fujiwara and Michael Kapovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7407},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
33 pages. Proposition 6.4, Corollary 8.4 and Section 9 are new