Random groups contain subgroups commensurable with orbifold geodesic-spine groups
Random groups contain subgroups commensurable with orbifold geodesic-spine groups
A geodesic spine is a finite -dimensional complex with totally geodesic edges and faces that embeds in a hyperbolic -manifold with totally geodesic boundary as a deformation retract. An orbifolding of is a -dimensional orbifold complex whose underlying complex is homeomorphic to and which has at most one orbifold point added to each face. Let be a random group, either in the few-relators model or in the density model with density .
Random-spine subgroup conjecture. For any fixed geodesic spine , with overwhelming probability contains a subgroup commensurable with the orbifold fundamental group of some orbifolding of .
This conjecture predicts that random groups contain subgroups reflecting the controlled combinatorial structure of thin geodesic spines; the source provides no evidence of a resolution, so its status remains open.
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Danny Calegari and Henry Wilton, “3-manifolds everywhere”, arXiv:1404.7043 (2017).
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