We prove the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for mapping tori of automorphisms of virtually torsion-free hyperbolic groups. The proof uses recently developed geometric methods for establishing the Farrell-Jones Conjecture by Bartels-L{u}ck-Reich, as well as
the structure theory of mapping tori by Dahmani-Krishna.
We show that in large enough rank, the Gromov boundary of the free factor complex is path connected and locally path connected.
The far-reaching work of Dahmani-Guirardel-Osin and recent work of Clay-Mangahas-Margalit provide geometric approaches to the study of the normal closure of a subgroup (or a collection of subgroups)in an ambient group $G$. Their work gives conditions
under which the normal closure in $G$ is a free product. In this paper we unify their results and simplify and significantly shorten the proof of the Dahmani-Guirardel-Osin theorem.
S. Gersten announced an algorithm that takes as input two finite sequences $vec K=(K_1,dots, K_N)$ and $vec K=(K_1,dots, K_N)$ of conjugacy classes of finitely generated subgroups of $F_n$ and outputs: (1) $mathsf{YES}$ or $mathsf{NO}$ depending on
whether or not there is an element $thetain mathsf{Out}(F_n)$ such that $theta(vec K)=vec K$ together with one such $theta$ if it exists and (2) a finite presentation for the subgroup of $mathsf{Out}(F_n)$ fixing $vec K$. S. Kalajdv{z}ievski published a verification of this algorithm. We present a different algorithm from the point of view of Culler-Vogtmanns Outer space. New results include that the subgroup of $mathsf{Out}(F_n)$ fixing $vec K$ is of type $mathsf{VF}$, an equivariant version of these results, an application, and a unified approach to such questions.
We prove the Farrell-Jones conjecture for free-by-cyclic groups. The proof uses recently developed geometric methods for establishing the Farrell-Jones Conjecture.
We say that a finitely generated group $G$ has property (QT) if it acts isometrically on a finite product of quasi-trees so that orbit maps are quasi-isometric embeddings. A quasi-tree is a connected graph with path metric quasi-isometric to a tree,
and product spaces are equipped with the $ell^1$-metric. As an application of the projection complex techniques, we prove that residually finite hyperbolic groups and mapping class groups have (QT).
We simplify the construction of projection complexes due to Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara. To do so, we introduce a sharper version of the Behrstock inequality, and show that it can always be enforced. Furthermore, we use the new setup to prove acylindr
icity results for the action on the projection complexes. We also treat quasi-trees of metric spaces associated to projection complexes, and prove an acylindricity criterion in that context as well.
We consider affine buildings with refined chamber structure. For each vertex in the refined chamber structure we construct a contraction, based at the vertex, that is used to prove exactness of Schneider-Stuhler resolutions of arbitrary depth.
We prove that $Out(F_N)$ is boundary amenable. This also holds more generally for $Out(G)$, where $G$ is either a toral relatively hyperbolic group or a finitely generated right-angled Artin group. As a consequence, all these groups satisfy the Novikov conjecture on higher signatures.
We give upper bounds, linear in rank, to the topological dimensions of the Gromov boundaries of the intersection graph, the free factor graph and the cyclic splitting graph of a finitely generated free group.
