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Title:
Quasi-isometry and commensurability classification of certain right-angled Coxeter groups

Speaker:
Anne Thomas

Abstract:
Bowditch's JSJ tree is a quasi-isometry invariant for one-ended hyperbolic groups, which uses the local cut point structure of their visual boundary.  We compute this tree for a large family of hyperbolic right-angled Coxeter groups, and identify a subfamily for which this tree is a complete quasi-isometry invariant.  We then investigate the commensurability classification of groups in this subfamily.  For our work on commensurability, a key step is proving that these Coxeter groups are virtually geometric amalgams of surfaces.  This is joint work with Pallavi Dani (Louisiana State University) and Emily Stark (University of Haifa).

Link:
https://www.msri.org/workshops/772/schedules/21429

Workshop:
MSRI- Groups acting on CAT(0) spaces