Short hierarchically hyperbolic groups I: uncountably many coarse median structures

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author Mangioni, Giorgio
author_facet Mangioni, Giorgio
contents We prove that the mapping class group of a sphere with five punctures admits uncountably many coarsely equivariant coarse median structures. The same is shown for right-angled Artin groups whose defining graphs are connected, triangle- and square-free, and have at least three vertices. Remarkably, in the latter case, the coarse median structures we produce are not induced by cocompact cubulations. To obtain the above results, we develop the theory of short hierarchically hyperbolic groups (HHG), which also include Artin groups of large and hyperbolic type, graph manifold groups, and extensions of Veech groups. We develop tools to modify their hierarchical structure, including using quasimorphisms to construct quasilines that serve as coordinate spaces, and this is where the abundance of coarse median structures comes from. These techniques are of independent interest, and are used in a follow-up paper with Alessandro Sisto to study quotients of short HHG. In the process, we also clarify a proof of Hagen, Martin, and Sisto on hierarchical hyperbolicity of Artin groups of large and hyperbolic type.
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spellingShingle Short hierarchically hyperbolic groups I: uncountably many coarse median structures
Mangioni, Giorgio
Group Theory
20F65 (Primary) 57K20, 20F67, 20F36 (Secondary)
We prove that the mapping class group of a sphere with five punctures admits uncountably many coarsely equivariant coarse median structures. The same is shown for right-angled Artin groups whose defining graphs are connected, triangle- and square-free, and have at least three vertices. Remarkably, in the latter case, the coarse median structures we produce are not induced by cocompact cubulations. To obtain the above results, we develop the theory of short hierarchically hyperbolic groups (HHG), which also include Artin groups of large and hyperbolic type, graph manifold groups, and extensions of Veech groups. We develop tools to modify their hierarchical structure, including using quasimorphisms to construct quasilines that serve as coordinate spaces, and this is where the abundance of coarse median structures comes from. These techniques are of independent interest, and are used in a follow-up paper with Alessandro Sisto to study quotients of short HHG. In the process, we also clarify a proof of Hagen, Martin, and Sisto on hierarchical hyperbolicity of Artin groups of large and hyperbolic type.
title Short hierarchically hyperbolic groups I: uncountably many coarse median structures
topic Group Theory
20F65 (Primary) 57K20, 20F67, 20F36 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09232