Relative hyperbolicity and relative quasiconvexity for countable groups

Hruska, G Christopher¹

¹Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA

Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 10 (2010) no. 3, pp. 1807-1856

Résumé

We lay the foundations for the study of relatively quasiconvex subgroups of relatively hyperbolic groups. These foundations require that we first work out a coherent theory of countable relatively hyperbolic groups (not necessarily finitely generated). We prove the equivalence of Gromov, Osin and Bowditch’s definitions of relative hyperbolicity for countable groups.

We then give several equivalent definitions of relatively quasiconvex subgroups in terms of various natural geometries on a relatively hyperbolic group. We show that each relatively quasiconvex subgroup is itself relatively hyperbolic, and that the intersection of two relatively quasiconvex subgroups is again relatively quasiconvex. In the finitely generated case, we prove that every undistorted subgroup is relatively quasiconvex, and we compute the distortion of a finitely generated relatively quasiconvex subgroup.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2010.10.1807

Keywords: relative hyperbolicity, quasiconvex

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