Using results of Ellis-Rodríguez Fernández, an explicit description by generators and relations is given of the mod q Schur multiplier, and this is shown to be the kernel of a universal q-central extension in the case of a q-perfect group, i.e. one which is generated by commutators and q-th powers. These results generalise earlier work [by] K. Dennis and Brown-Loday.
We describe the kernel of the canonical map from the Floyd boundary of a relatively hyperbolic group to its Bowditch boundary. Using the Floyd completion we further prove that the property of relative hyperbolicity is invariant under quasi-isometric maps. If a finitely generated group admits a quasi-isometric map into a relatively hyperbolic group then is itself relatively hyperbolic with respect to a system of subgroups whose image under is situated within a uniformly bounded distance...
We consider a ‘contracting boundary’ of a proper geodesic metric space consisting of equivalence classes of geodesic rays that behave like geodesics in a hyperbolic space.We topologize this set via the Gromov product, in analogy to the topology of the boundary of a hyperbolic space. We show that when the space is not hyperbolic, quasi-isometries do not necessarily give homeomorphisms of this boundary. Continuity can fail even when the spaces are required to be CAT(0). We show this by constructing...
Nous définissons et entamons l’étude d’analogues infinitésimaux des quotients principaux (algèbres de Temperley-Lieb, Hecke, Birman-Wenzl-Murakami) de l’algèbre de groupe du groupe d’Artin . Ce sont des algèbres de Hopf qui correspondent à des groupes réductifs, et permettent de donner un cadre général aux représentations dérivées des représentations classiques de . Nous décomposons complètement l’algèbre de Temperley-Lieb infinitésimale, et en déduisons plusieurs résultats d’irréductibilité.