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Recognizing a relatively hyperbolic group by its Dehn fillings

Group Theory 2018-11-14 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Dehn fillings for relatively hyperbolic groups generalize the topological Dehn surgery on a non-compact hyperbolic 33-manifold such as a hyperbolic knot complement. We prove a rigidity result saying that if two non-elementary relatively hyperbolic groups without suitable splittings have sufficiently many isomorphic Dehn fillings, then these groups are in fact isomorphic. Our main application is a solution to the isomorphism problem in the class of non-elementary relatively hyperbolic groups with residually finite parabolic groups and with no suitable splittings.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03233,
  title  = {Recognizing a relatively hyperbolic group by its Dehn fillings},
  author = {François Dahmani and Vincent Guirardel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03233},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Minor modification (including typesetting). 56 pages

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