An Effective Compactness Theorem for Coxeter Groups

dc.creatorLai, Yvonne
dc.date2009-02-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:42:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:42:17Z
dc.descriptionThrough highly non-constructive methods, works by Bestvina, Culler, Feighn, Morgan, Paulin, Rips, Shalen, and Thurston show that if a finitely presented group does not split over a virtually solvable subgroup, then the space of its discrete and faithful actions on hyperbolic n-space, modulo conjugation, is compact for all dimensions. Although this implies that the space of hyperbolic structures of such groups has finite diameter, the known methods do not give an explicit bound. We establish such a bound for Coxeter groups. We find that either the group splits over a virtually solvable subgroup or there is a constant C and a point in hyperbolic n-space that is moved no more than C by any generator. The constant C depends only on the number of generators of the group, and is independent of the relators.
dc.descriptionPDFLaTeX, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2718
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2718
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/220026
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject20F65; 57M99
dc.titleAn Effective Compactness Theorem for Coxeter Groups
dc.typetext

Files

Collections