Futer–Wise cubulation approximation conjecture for hyperbolic manifolds

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Let M=obreak\HnM= obreak\backslash \mathbb{H}^n be a closed hyperbolic nn-manifold with fundamental group Γ\Gamma, where either n3n\leq 3 or MM is arithmetic of simplest type. A λ\lambda-quasi-isometry is a Γ\Gamma-equivariant map satisfying the quasi-isometry inequalities with multiplicative distortion λ>1\lambda>1. Futer–Wise conjecture. For every λ>1\lambda>1, MM is homotopy equivalent to a compact non-positively curved cube complex X\mathcal{X} such that there is a Γ\Gamma-equivariant λ\lambda-quasi-isometry from X~\widetilde{\mathcal{X}} to M~\widetilde{M}. The conjecture predicts that there are enough cubulations to approximate geometric actions on Hn\mathbb{H}^n. It cannot be strengthened to require 11-quasi-isometries, because translation lengths of geometric cubical actions have discrete constraints whereas the marked length spectrum of a uniform hyperbolic lattice is not contained in a discrete subgroup of R\mathbb{R}.

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Nic Brody and Eduardo Reyes, “Approximating hyperbolic lattices by cubulations”, arXiv:2404.01511 (2024).

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