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Subdivision rules for all Gromov hyperbolic groups

Geometric Topology 2017-08-09 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

This paper shows that every Gromov hyperbolic group can be described by a finite subdivision rule acting on the 3-sphere. This gives a boundary-like sequence of increasingly refined finite cell complexes which carry all quasi-isometry information about the group. This extends a result from Cannon and Swenson in 1998 that hyperbolic groups can be described by a recursive sequence of overlapping coverings by possibly wild sets, and demonstrates the existence of non-cubulated groups that can be represented by subdivision rules.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02366,
  title  = {Subdivision rules for all Gromov hyperbolic groups},
  author = {Brian Rushton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02366},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages

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