A Combination Theorem for Metric Bundles
| Autor: | Mj, Mahan, Sardar, Pranab |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Geometric and Functional Analysis: Volume 22, Issue 6 (2012), Page 1636-1707 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00039-012-0196-1 |
| Popis: | We define metric bundles/metric graph bundles which provide a purely topological/coarse-geometric generalization of the notion of trees of metric spaces a la Bestvina-Feighn in the special case that the inclusions of the edge spaces into the vertex spaces are uniform coarsely surjective quasi-isometries. We prove the existence of quasi-isometric sections in this generality. Then we prove a combination theorem for metric (graph) bundles (including exact sequences of groups) that establishes sufficient conditions, particularly flaring, under which the metric bundles are hyperbolic. We use this to give examples of surface bundles over hyperbolic disks, whose universal cover is Gromov-hyperbolic. We also show that in typical situations, flaring is also a necessary condition. Comment: v3: Major revision: 56 pages 5 figures. Many details added. Characterization of convex cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups of surfaces with punctures in terms of relative hyperbolicity given v4: Final version incorporating referee comments: 63 pages 5 figures. To appear in Geom. Funct. Anal |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
| Externí odkaz: |
|