Random groups contain subgroups commensurable with orbifold geodesic-spine groups

A geodesic spine KK is a finite 22-dimensional complex with totally geodesic edges and faces that embeds in a hyperbolic 33-manifold MM with totally geodesic boundary as a deformation retract. An orbifolding KK' of KK is a 22-dimensional orbifold complex whose underlying complex is homeomorphic to KK and which has at most one orbifold point added to each face. Let GG be a random group, either in the few-relators model or in the density model with density 0<D<1/20<D<1/2.

Random-spine subgroup conjecture. For any fixed geodesic spine KK, with overwhelming probability GG contains a subgroup commensurable with the orbifold fundamental group of some orbifolding KK' of KK.

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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