Quasi-Actions on Trees II: Finite Depth Bass-Serre Trees
Quasi-Actions on Trees II: Finite Depth Bass-Serre Trees
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树上的拟作用 II:有限深度 Bass-Serre 树
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2004
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K. Whyte
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作者:
L. Mosher;M. Sageev;K. Whyte
This paper addresses questions of quasi-isometric rigidity and classification for fundamental groups of finite graphs of groups, under the assumption that the Bass-Serre tree of the graph of groups has finite depth. The main example of a finite depth graph of groups is one whose vertex and edge groups are coarse Poincare duality groups. The main theorem says that, under certain hypotheses, if $mathcal{G}$ is a finite graph of coarse Poincare duality groups, then any finitely generated group quasi-isometric to the fundamental group of $mathcal{G}$ is also the fundamental group of a finite graph of coarse Poincare duality groups, and any quasi-isometry between two such groups must coarsely preserve the vertex and edge spaces of their Bass-Serre trees of spaces. Besides some simple normalization hypotheses, the main hypothesis is the "crossing graph condition", which is imposed on each vertex group $mathcal{G}_v$ which is an $n$-dimensional coarse Poincare duality group for which every incident edge group has positive codimension: the crossing graph of $mathcal{G}_v$ is a graph $epsilon_v$ that describes the pattern in which the codimension 1 edge groups incident to $mathcal{G}_v$ are crossed by other edge groups incident to $mathcal{G}_v$, and the crossing graph condition requires that $epsilon_v$ be connected or empty.