JournalslemVol. 59, No. 1/2pp. 165–181

Projections and relative hyperbolicity

  • Alessandro Sisto

    ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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Abstract

We give an alternative definition of relative hyperbolicity based on properties of closest-point projections on peripheral subgroups. We also derive a distance formula for relatively hyperbolic groups, similar to the one for mapping class groups.

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Alessandro Sisto, Projections and relative hyperbolicity. Enseign. Math. 59 (2013), no. 1/2, pp. 165–181

DOI 10.4171/LEM/59-1-6