Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

We give explicit necessary and sufficient conditions for the abstract commensurability of certain families of 1-ended, hyperbolic groups, namely right-angled Coxeter groups defined by generalized ‚-graphs and cycles of generalized ‚-graphs, and geometric amalgams of free groups whose JSJ graphs are trees of diameter 4. We also show that if a geometric amalgam of free groups has JSJ graph a tree, then it is commensurable to a right-angled Coxeter group, and give an example of a geometric amalgam of free groups which is not quasi-isometric (hence not commensurable) to any group which is finitely generated by torsion elements. Our proofs involve a new geometric realization of the right-angled Coxeter groups we consider, such that covers corresponding to torsion-free, finite-index subgroups are surface amalgams.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

First Page

1273

Last Page

1341

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