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Boundaries and
automorphisms of hierarchically hyperbolic spaces
Matthew Gentry Durham, Mark F Hagen and Alessandro Sisto |
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Geometry & Topology 21 (2017) 3659–3758
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Correction: 10.2140/gt.2020.24.1051
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Abstract |
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Hierarchically hyperbolic spaces provide a common framework for studying mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces, Teichmüller space, right-angled Artin groups, and many other cubical groups. Given such a space , we build a bordification of compatible with its hierarchically hyperbolic structure. If is proper, eg a hierarchically hyperbolic group such as the mapping class group, we get a compactification of ; we also prove that our construction generalizes the Gromov boundary of a hyperbolic space. In our first main set of applications, we introduce a notion of geometrical finiteness for hierarchically hyperbolic subgroups of hierarchically hyperbolic groups in terms of boundary embeddings. As primary examples of geometrical finiteness, we prove that the natural inclusions of finitely generated Veech groups and the Leininger–Reid combination subgroups extend to continuous embeddings of their Gromov boundaries into the boundary of the mapping class group, both of which fail to happen with the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space. Our second main set of applications are dynamical and structural, built upon our classification of automorphisms of hierarchically hyperbolic spaces and analysis of how the various types of automorphisms act on the boundary. We prove a generalization of the Handel–Mosher “omnibus subgroup theorem” for mapping class groups to all hierarchically hyperbolic groups, obtain a new proof of the Caprace–Sageev rank-rigidity theorem for many cube complexes, and identify the boundary of a hierarchically hyperbolic group as its Poisson boundary; these results rely on a theorem detecting irreducible axial elements of a group acting on a hierarchically hyperbolic space (which generalize pseudo-Anosov elements of the mapping class group and rank-one isometries of a cube complex not virtually stabilizing a hyperplane). |
Keywords
mapping class groups, cubical groups, hierarchically
hyperbolic spaces
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 20F65
Secondary: 20F67, 30F60
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Publication
Received: 23 May 2016
Revised: 30 December 2016
Accepted: 7 February 2017
Published: 31 August 2017
Proposed: Benson Farb
Seconded: Anna Wienhard, Bruce Kleiner
Correction: 23 September 2020
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Authors |
| Matthew Gentry Durham | |
| Department of Mathematics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI United States |
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| http://www-personal.umich.edu/~durhamma/ | |
| Mark F Hagen | |
| Department of Pure Maths and Math.
Stat. University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom |
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| http://www.wescac.net/ | |
| Alessandro Sisto | |
| Departement Mathematik ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland |
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| http://people.math.ethz.ch/~alsisto/ | |
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