Finite-height subgroups of hyperbolic groups are quasi-convex

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Let GG be a hyperbolic group, and let HH be a finitely generated subgroup of GG. Say that HH has finite height if there is a bound on the number of essentially distinct conjugates of HH with infinite intersection.

Finite-height subgroup conjecture. If HH has finite height in GG, then HH is quasi-convex in GG.

This conjecture concerns the converse to the fact that quasi-convex subgroups have finite height, and would characterise quasi-convexity among finitely generated subgroups of hyperbolic groups by this finiteness property. The supplied text gives no evidence that it has been resolved.

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William D. Cohen, “Quasi-convex Splittings of Acylindrical Graphs of Locally Finite-Height Groups”, arXiv:2503.15459 (2026).

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