Median structures on asymptotic cones and homomorphisms into mapping class groups

DOI10.1112/plms/pdq025zbMath1270.20044arXiv0810.5376OpenAlexW2029201644MaRDI QIDQ3084581

Cornelia Drutu, Mark V. Sapir, Jason A. Behrstock

Publication date: 25 March 2011

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5376

zbMATH Keywords

rank conjectureasymptotic conesfinitely generated groupsmapping class groups of surfacesequivariant embeddingsgroups with Kazhdan property (T)homomorphisms into mapping class groupsmedian subspacesproducts of real trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Groups acting on trees (20E08)

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