Classification of fibred group extensions and H...
Let be a non-archimedean local field. This paper gives an explicit isomorphism between the dual of the special representation of and the space of harmonic cochains defined on the Bruhat-Tits building of , in the sense of E. de Shalit [11]. We deduce, applying the results of a paper of P. Schneider and U. Stuhler [9], that there exists a -equivariant isomorphism between the cohomology group of the Drinfeld symmetric space and the space of harmonic cochains.
Let be a building of arbitrary type. A compactification of the set of spherical residues of is introduced. We prove that it coincides with the horofunction compactification of endowed with a natural combinatorial distance which we call the root-distance. Points of admit amenable stabilisers in and conversely, any amenable subgroup virtually fixes a point in . In addition, it is shown that, provided is transitive enough, this compactification also coincides with the group-theoretic...
We give a characterization of the geometric automorphisms in a certain class of (not necessarily irreducible) free group automorphisms. When the automorphism is geometric, then it is induced by a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism without interior singularities. An outer free group automorphism is given by a -cocycle of a -complex (a standard dynamical branched surface, see [7] and [9]) the fundamental group of which is the mapping-torus group of the automorphism. A combinatorial construction elucidates...
In this article, we discuss the quasiconformal structure of boundaries of right-angled hyperbolic buildings using combinatorial tools. In particular, we exhibit some examples of buildings of dimension 3 and 4 whose boundaries satisfy the combinatorial Loewner property. This property is a weak version of the Loewner property. This is motivated by the fact that the quasiconformal structure of the boundary led to many results of rigidity in hyperbolic spaces since G.D.Mostow. In the case of buildings...
Let Out(Fn) denote the outer automorphism group of the free group Fn with n>3. We prove that for any finite index subgroup Γ<Out(Fn), the group Aut(Γ) is isomorphic to the normalizer of Γ in Out(Fn). We prove that Γ is co-Hopfian: every injective homomorphism Γ→Γ is surjective. Finally, we prove that the abstract commensurator Comm(Out(Fn)) is isomorphic to Out(Fn).