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The structure of relatively hyperbolic groups in convex real projective geometry

Geometric Topology 2025-12-24 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we prove a general structure theorem for relatively hyperbolic groups (with arbitrary peripheral subgroups) acting naive convex co-compactly on properly convex domains in real projective space. We also establish a characterization of such groups in terms of the existence of an invariant collection of closed unbounded convex subsets with good isolation properties. This is a real projective analogue of results of Hindawi-Hruska-Kleiner for CAT(0){\rm CAT}(0) spaces. We also obtain an equivariant homeomorphism between the Bowditch boundary of the group and a quotient of the ideal boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2203.16596,
  title  = {The structure of relatively hyperbolic groups in convex real projective geometry},
  author = {Mitul Islam and Andrew Zimmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16596},
  year   = {2025}
}

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31 pages. v2: minor revisions. Comments welcome!

R2 v1 2026-06-24T10:32:28.802Z