Proper actions on finite products of hyperbolic spaces

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Main Authors: Tao, Bingxue, Wan, Renxing
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author Tao, Bingxue
Wan, Renxing
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Wan, Renxing
contents A group $G$ is said to have property (PH') if there exist finitely many hyperbolic spaces $X_1,\cdots,X_n$ on which $G$ acts coboundedly such that the diagonal action of $G$ on the product $\prod_{i=1}^nX_i$ equipped with $\ell^1$-metric is proper. A group $G$ has property (PH) if it virtually has property (PH'). This notion is a generalization of property (QT) introduced by Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara \cite{BBF21}. In this paper, we initiate the study of property (PH) of groups and give a complete characterization of groups with property (PH') or (PH) from lineal actions. In addition, by considering a central extension of groups $1\to Z\to E\to G\to 1$, we prove that $E$ has property (PH) (resp. (QT)) if and only if $G$ has property (PH) (resp. (QT)) and the Euler class of the extension is bounded. We also derive similar results for amalgamated direct products and graph products. As corollaries, we characterize when 3-manifold groups have property (PH) and obtain more interesting examples with property (QT) including the central extension of residually finite hyperbolic groups, the mapping class group of any finite-type surface and the outer automorphism group of torsion-free one-ended hyperbolic groups.
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spellingShingle Proper actions on finite products of hyperbolic spaces
Tao, Bingxue
Wan, Renxing
Group Theory
Geometric Topology
20F65
A group $G$ is said to have property (PH') if there exist finitely many hyperbolic spaces $X_1,\cdots,X_n$ on which $G$ acts coboundedly such that the diagonal action of $G$ on the product $\prod_{i=1}^nX_i$ equipped with $\ell^1$-metric is proper. A group $G$ has property (PH) if it virtually has property (PH'). This notion is a generalization of property (QT) introduced by Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara \cite{BBF21}. In this paper, we initiate the study of property (PH) of groups and give a complete characterization of groups with property (PH') or (PH) from lineal actions. In addition, by considering a central extension of groups $1\to Z\to E\to G\to 1$, we prove that $E$ has property (PH) (resp. (QT)) if and only if $G$ has property (PH) (resp. (QT)) and the Euler class of the extension is bounded. We also derive similar results for amalgamated direct products and graph products. As corollaries, we characterize when 3-manifold groups have property (PH) and obtain more interesting examples with property (QT) including the central extension of residually finite hyperbolic groups, the mapping class group of any finite-type surface and the outer automorphism group of torsion-free one-ended hyperbolic groups.
title Proper actions on finite products of hyperbolic spaces
topic Group Theory
Geometric Topology
20F65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04856