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Groups (not?) quasi-retracting onto $\mathbb{Z}$ via closest points projection
Inspired by this question we ask:
Suppose that $G$ is an infinite group. Suppose that $X$ is a finite generating set of $G$. Let $\Gamma = \Gamma(G, X)$ be the resulting Cayley graph. Does $\Gamma$ ...
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Are finitely generated subgroups of $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Q})$ virtually special?
This might be a silly question--but are there any examples of finitely generated subgroups of $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Q})$ that are known to not be virtually special?
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Additive characters from coarse quotient maps
Let's consider a (finitely generated) group $\Gamma$ and a
coarse quotient map
$q\colon\Gamma\to\mathbb{R}$.
I'm interested in the 1-cocycle
$\sigma\colon\Gamma\to\ell_\infty\Gamma$,
defined by $\...
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Coarse embeddings and Gromov products in (Gromov) hyperbolic spaces
I am new into geometric group theory and I have recently started reading the book "Sur les Groupes Hyperboliques d’après Mikhael Gromov" by Ghys and de la Harpe. The following inequality ...
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$L^p$-compression of metabelian groups
Question: Is there a metabelian group, so that for some $\epsilon >0$ and all $p \in [1, \infty[$ the [equivariant] compression exponent in [any] $L^p$-space is bounded by $1-\epsilon$ (bound does ...
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Divergence functions in hyperbolic groups
Gromov hyperbolicity has many characterizations, one of them being the existence of a super-linear divergence function, see definition below.
We note that in $\mathbb{R}^2$ there is no divergence ...
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Variants of the Bonk-Schramm embedding
Recently I heard about the following embedding theorem of Bonk and Schramm: every Gromov hyperbolic geodesic metric space with "bounded growth" is roughly similar to a convex subset of $\...
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Groups acting non-properly cocompactly on hyperbolic spaces
A group $G$ is hyperbolic if it admits a geometric (the action is proper and co-bounded) action on a geodesic hyperbolic metric space. Also, the definition can be given as follows, a group $G$ ...
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Injective hulls of metric spaces
In the context of large scale geometry and geometric group theory, I have recently come across the concept of injective hulls of metric spaces. For a metric space $X$, let $\text{In}(X)$ be the set of ...
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Amalgamated product acting on CAT(0) cube complex
I was reading the following result from the book Metric spaces of non-positive curvature by Bridson and Haefliger.
Result:
Let $F_0,F_1$ and $H$ be groups acting properly
by isometries on complete $...
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Need help understanding the geometry of a particular building structure
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$I’m not primarily a geometer, so apologies if this question is worded poorly. I’ve been looking at asymptotic cones of connected semisimple Lie groups with at least one ...
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Relation of geometric and polyhedral convergence
By Proposition 3.10(i) of Jorgensen and Marden's 1990 Algebraic and geometric convergence of Kleinian groups, "[A] sequence $\{G_n\}$ of Kleinian groups converges geometrically to a Kleinian ...
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Where to find English translation of Pansu's paper from Ann. Math?
Where can I find English translation of the following paper?
P. Pansu,
Métriques de Carnot-Carathéodory et quasiisométries des espaces symétriques de rang un. (French. English summary) [Carnot-...
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Is the canonical map from isometry group of a Gromov hyperbolic space to homeomorphisms of its Gromov boundary injective?
Suppose X is a proper Gromov hyperbolic space and $\partial X$ is its Gromov boundary. It is well-known that there is a canonical group homomorphism $\Phi$ from the isometry group of X to the group ...
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Integral over quotient of discrete group
Let $Y$ be a proper metric space. By a lattice we mean a discontinuous group of isometries $\Gamma$ with compact quotient $Y/\Gamma$. You may also assume that $\Gamma$ acts freely. Suppose we are ...
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Is fundamental group of a finite volume, negatively curved, cusped manifold a non-uniform lattice?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Mob{Mob}$Some background: (1) A Riemannian manifold $M$ is pinched negatively curved if there is a constant $\tau<\kappa<0$ such that all the sectional curvatures are ...
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Cancellation of elements in the Gromov boundary of a free group
Let $A$ be a finite set of free generators and their inverses and $F$ the free group generated by elements in $A$ (some call $A$ the alphabet of $F$). For each $g\in F$, use $\vert\,g\,\vert$ to ...
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Barycenter maps that are "submultiplicative" with respect to group actions
Background and notation
For a set $X$, we denote $\mathcal{P} (X)$ to be the finitely supported measures on $X$, i.e., $\nu \in \mathcal{P} (X)$ is of the form
$$\nu = \sum_{i=1}^n a_i \delta_{x_i},$...
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Reference for Varopoulos isoperimetric inequality with multiplicity
The Varopoulos isoperimetric inequality for a bounded domain $D$ in a nilpotent group $\Gamma$ of growth $n$ reads
$$
\# D \le \mathrm{const} \cdot (\#\partial D)^{n/(n-1)}
$$
See Ch. 6.E+ in Gromov's ...
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What properties are preserved by quasi-isometries
Recently, I came across the notion of quasi-isometries, while thinking of "discrete spaces which are surrogates for approximate continuous ones".
What (metric)/geometric properties are ...
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Definition of the category QMet of metric spaces and quasi-isometries
I am following Clara Löh's Geometric Group Theory. An Introduction, and in remark 5.1.12, she defines the category QMet whose objects are metric spaces and whose morphisms are quasi-isometric ...
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Order type of monotone functions on $\Bbb N$ up to affine conjugation
Let's introduce order on non-strictly monotone functions $\Bbb N \to \Bbb N$ such that $f \leq g$ if $f(n) \leq Cg(Cn + C) + C$ and, of course, identify such $f, g$ if $f \leq g \leq f$. (Note absence ...
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Looking for a citation: the Rips $n$-complex of a $\delta$-hyperbolic group is contractible for high enough $n$
Given a $\delta$-hyperbolic group $G$, I have been told that the Rips $n$-complex of $G$ is contractible for high enough $n$. The only proof I have found for this statement is in an expository essay ...
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Example of CAT($k$) space [closed]
Good time of day. I repeat the question from MSE (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4464888/question-about-example-of-catk-space) because no response has been received.Question is the following:...
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Question about coarse fixed point property in large-scale geometry
I read the article of Steven Hair "A degree-theoretic proof of a coarse fixed point principle". I have the following question.
I start with some main definitions from this article. A coarse ...
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Ends of a negatively curved Riemannian manifold
Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. Let us use the standard definition of "end", for example, as in this article. If $M$ has non-negative Ricci curvature, it is well-known that it has ...
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Spectral radius of a finitely generated group
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group and $\Gamma$ be its Cayley graph with the usual word metric. Let $\mu$ be a symmetric non-degenerate measure on $G$ (maybe with finite support or smooth), and ...
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Are geometric actions on CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats minimal on the boundary?
Suppose $X$ is a $CAT(0)$ space with isolated flats, $\partial X$ its visual boundary and $G$ acts properly discontinuously amd cocompactly on $X$. Must the $G$ action on $\partial X$ have a dense ...
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Quasi-isometry groups of metric spaces
Given a metric space $(X, d)$, we can consider the set of all quasi-isometries $f: X \to X$, and quotient out by the equivalence relation identifying $f$ and $g$ if $\sup_{x \in X}d(f(x), g(x))$ is ...
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Electrifications of quasi-geodesics in relatively hyperbolic groups
This post is somewhat of a followup to my previous post here. $\DeclareMathOperator\Cay{Cay}$Suppose $G$ is a relatively hyperbolic group with peripheral subgroups $P_1,P_2,\dots, P_n$, and suppose $\...
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Proof that lifts of geodesics are quasi-geodesics (relatively hyperbolic groups)
$\DeclareMathOperator\Cay{Cay}$Suppose $G$ is a relatively hyperbolic group with peripheral subgroups $P_1,P_2,\dots, P_n$, and suppose $\mathcal{S}$ is a finite generating set for $G$. Let $X=\Cay(G,\...
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Reference for Chebyshev centers
Today, I came across the concept of Chebyshev center twice.
In particular, it is the key tool in the very elegant paper "A fixed point theorem for $L^1$ spaces" by Bader, Gelander and Monod.
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Maximal symmetries of complete metrics on manifolds
Let $M$ be a connected and second-countable manifold, and $d,d'$ be $2$ complete compatible metrics on it. The isometry group of $(M,d)$, denoted as $\mathrm{Iso}(d)$, is equipped with the compact-...
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Sufficient conditions for the Besicovitch covering theorem to hold on groups of polynomial growth
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group with symmetric generating set $S$. Then $S$ induces a distance $d$ on $G$ by letting $d(a,b) = $ the minimum $n$ such that there are generators $s_1,...,s_n$ with ...
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Shortcutting quasigeodesics
Let $\Gamma$ be a connected graph, let $\lambda \ge 1$ and $c \ge 0$ be some constants. Recall that a combinatorial path $p$ in $\Gamma$ is said to be $(\lambda,c)$-quasigeodesic if for every ...
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Do compact universal covers have concentration of measure phenomenon?
$\DeclareMathOperator\vol{vol}\DeclareMathOperator\diam{diam}$I have a sequence of compact Riemannian manifolds $M_n$ with $\diam (M_n) \to 0$ and finite fundamental groups $\pi_1 (M_n)$ so that their ...
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Equivalent definitions of Gromov hyperbolicity
Let $X$ be a metric space. I'd like to collect as many definitions of Gromov hyperbolicity or $\delta$-hyperbolicity of $X$ as possible.
I'm happy for the definitions to require some niceness ...
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Prehistory of Gromov-hyperbolic spaces/groups
When speaking about hyperbolic groups/spaces, one usually refers to Gromov's monograph Hyperbolic groups for their introduction. However, coarse notions of hyperbolicity can be found in some of his ...
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Characterizations of metric trees
Let $X$ be a geodesic space. Then the following conditions are equivalent:
For any $x,y\in X, x \neq y$, there is a unique arc (homeomorphic to the interval $[0,1]$) with endpoints $x$ and $y$.
No ...
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Are two quasi-isometric, isomorphic on large enough balls, transitive graphs isomorphic?
Take two transitive graphs $X,Y$ (potentially directed and edge-labelled, e.g. Cayley graphs).
Assume $X,Y$ are quasi-isometric with constant $K$, i.e. there exists a function $f:VX \to VY$ ($VX,\,VY$ ...
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Are there examples of hyperbolic manifolds with finite Bowen-Margulis measure and fundamental group which is not relatively hyperbolic?
It is well known that a geometrically finite hyperbolic manifold (quotient of $H^n$) has finite Bowen-Margulis measure.
Marc Peigné [1] constructed examples of geometrically infinite hyperbolic ...
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Translation lengths in CAT(0) spaces
Let $a,b$ be two loxodromic isometries of a CAT(0) space. Assume that, for every $n \geq 1$, $a^nb$ is also loxodromic. Is it possible for the translation length of $a^nb$ to be bounded independently ...
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What is the symmetry group of this compound of two polytopes?
The geometric shape in question is a compound of two polytopes: an 11-hypercube with edge length $2$ and an 11-simplex with edge length $\sqrt6$ whose vertices are a subset of the hypercube’s. What is ...
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An approach to showing hyperbolic groups are CAT(0)
I've been sitting on this idea for quite a while but I'm not in academia any longer so not likely to ever tackle it on my own. The approach is as follows:
$G$ acts on its boundary $\partial G$
ergo, $...
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An analogue of the Milnor-Švarc lemma for Busemann boundaries
The Milnor-Švarc lemma, is, without doubt, regarded as one of the most important statements in geometric group theory. (Edit) One of the corollaries of this lemma says that if a hyperbolic group $G$ ...
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Example of an invariant metric on a nilpotent group which is not asymptotically geodesic
Let $X$ be a metric space. We say that $X$ is asymptotically geodesic if for all $\epsilon > 0$, there exists $R > 0$ such that, for all $x,y \in X$, there exists some finite sequence of points $...
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Gromov hyperbolicity constant vs. Gromov-Hausdorff distance to a tree
Let $X$ be a compact, geodesic metric space which is Gromov hyperbolic with a constant $\delta>0$. To fix scaling, let us also assume that $X$ has diameter $1$.
To fix a definition of Gromov ...
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Which groups are doubling?
A metric space $(M,d)$ is doubling if there exists $n$ such that every ball of radius $r$ can be covered by $n$ balls of radius $r/2$, for all $r$. For which f.g. groups $G$ and finite symmetric ...
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Contractible Rips complex from non-hyperbolic group
I heard that the Rips complexes associated to the Cayley graphs of hyperbolic groups are contractible for a sufficiently large radius. Is the converse true? Namely, if a group is non-hyperbolic, then ...
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Does a rank 1 CAT(0) space with a proper cocompact group action contain a zero width axis?
A geodesic in a proper CAT(0) space is said to be rank 1 if it does not bound a flat half-plane and zero-width if it does not bound a flat strip of any width.
Let $X$ be a geodesically complete CAT(0) ...
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