Widths of Subgroups

Gitik, Rita ; Mitra, Mahan ; Rips, Eliyahu ; Sageev, Michah (1998) Widths of Subgroups Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 350 . pp. 321-329. ISSN 1088-6850

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Abstract

We say that the width of an infinite subgroup H in G is n if there exists a collection of n essentially distinct conjugates of H such that the intersection of any two elements of the collection is infinite and n is maximal possible. We define the width of a finite subgroup to be 0. We prove that a quasiconvex subgroup of a negatively curved group has finite width. It follows that geometrically finite surfaces in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds satisfy the k-plane property for some k.

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