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The theory of complex hyperbolic discrete groups is still in its childhood but promises to grow into a rich subfield of geometry. In this paper I will discuss some recent progress that has been made on complex hyperbolic deformations of the modular group and, more generally, triangle groups. These are some of the simpl…

Study stabilizers of complex hyperbolic triangle groups, finding generators and signatures.

Study complex hyperbolic lattices and their relation to strict hyperbolization.

These are lectures on discrete groups of isometries of complex hyperbolic spaces, aimed to discuss interactions between the function theory on complex hyperbolic manifolds and the theory of discrete groups.

New groups found with critical exponents close to but less than max.

The study determines discreteness of complex hyperbolic triangle groups.

Cube complexes allow hyperbolic groups to have Anosov representations.

In this article, we prove a combination theorem for a complex of relatively hyperbolic groups. It is a generalization of Martin's \cite{martin} work for combination of hyperbolic groups over a finite $M_K$-simplicial complex, where $k\leq 0$.

The paper studies hyperbolic quotients of projection complexes and their actions.

Study complex hyperbolic lattices and their subgroups, proving new finiteness properties.

Proves hyperbolized groups are virtually compact special and linear.

In this paper we consider ultra-parallel complex hyperbolic triangle groups of type $[m_1,m_2,0]$, i.e. groups of isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane, generated by complex reflections in three ultra-parallel complex geodesics two of which intersect on the boundary. We prove some discreteness and non-discreteness…

In this note we prove that a complex hyperbolic triangle group of type (m,m,infinity), i.e. a group of isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane, generated by complex reflections in three complex geodesics meeting at angles Pi/m, Pi/m and 0, is not discrete if the product of the three generators is regular elliptic.

Conditions for hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic extensions of free groups using automorphisms with fixed points.

Complex hyperbolic triangle groups yield specific 3-manifolds at infinity.

Survey of group actions on hyperbolic spaces, focusing on mapping class groups and Out(F_n).

In this paper we study discreteness of complex hyperbolic triangle groups of type $[m,m,0;3,3,2]$, i.e. groups of isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane generated by three complex reflections of orders $3,3,2$ in complex geodesics with pairwise distances $m,m,0$. For fixed $m,$ the parameter space of such groups is…

Study of subgroups in complex hyperbolic lattice triangle groups.

New group constructed from cube complex properties.

Explicit polynomial bound found for subgroup Dehn function.

Complex hyperbolic triangle groups were first considered by Mostow in building the first nonarithmetic lattices in PU(2, 1). They are a natural generalization of the classical triangle groups acting on the hyperbolic plane. A well-known theorem of Takeuchi is that there are only finitely many Fuchsian triangle groups t…

We present several formulas for the traces of elements in complex hyperbolic triangle groups generated by complex reflections. The space of such groups of fixed signature is of real dimension one. We parameterise this space by a real invariant alpha of triangles in the complex hyperbolic plane. The main result of the p…

Complex hyperbolic triangle groups are discrete when certain conditions are met.

We prove that the free splitting complex of a finite rank free group, also known as Hatcher's sphere complex, is hyperbolic.

This is an expository article about groups generated by two isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane.

We show that the topological complexity of a finitely generated torsion free hyperbolic group $π$ with $\cdπ=n$ equals $2n$.

We study geometry, topology and deformation spaces of noncompact complex hyperbolic manifolds (geometrically finite, with variable negative curvature), whose properties make them surprisingly different from real hyperbolic manifolds with constant negative curvature. This study uses an interaction between Kähler geometr…

Let $H^n$ denote the complex hyperbolic space of dimension $n$. The group $U(n,1)$ acts as the group of isometries of $H^n$. In this paper we investigate when two isometries of the complex hyperbolic space commute. Along the way we determine the centralizers.

We show that there does not exist a Kobayashi hyperbolic complex manifold of dimension $n\ne 3$, whose group of holomorphic automorphisms has dimension $n^2+1$ and that, if a 3-dimensional connected hyperbolic complex manifold has automorphism group of dimension 10, then it is holomorphically equivalent to the Siegel s…

The study shows acylindrical hyperbolicity for Artin groups not associated with joins or cones.

Study shows infinite manifold types for every group.

New condition prevents hyperbolic spaces from matching curve complexes.

New method constructs non-quasiconvex subgroups in hyperbolic groups.

A simplicial complex is called negatively curved if all its simplices are isometric to simplices in hyperbolic space, and it satisfies Gromov's Link Condition. We prove that, subject to certain conditions, a compact graph of spaces whose vertex spaces are negatively curved 2-complexes, and whose edge spaces are points …

We give generators for a certain complex hyperbolic braid group. That is, we remove a hyperplane arrangement from complex hyperbolic $13$-space, take the quotient of the remaining space by a discrete group, and find generators for the orbifold fundamental group of the quotient. These generators have the most natural fo…

New lattice extensions of Schottky groups in hyperbolic space.

We study homomorphisms from Kähler groups to Coxeter groups. As an application, we prove that a cocompact complex hyperbolic lattice (in complex dimension at least 2) does not embedd into a Coxeter group or a right-angled Artin group. This is in contrast with the case of real hyperbolic lattices.

Artin groups not free of infinity are shown to have finite centers.

We study the geometry of nonrelatively hyperbolic groups. Generalizing a result of Schwartz, any quasi-isometric image of a non-relatively hyperbolic space in a relatively hyperbolic space is contained in a bounded neighborhood of a single peripheral subgroup. This implies that a group being relatively hyperbolic with …

Given a complex of groups over a finite simplicial complex in the sense of Haefliger, we give conditions under which it is possible to build an EZ-structure in the sense of Farrell-Lafont for its fundamental group out of such structures for its local groups. As an application, we prove a combination theorem that yields…

Classifies CR submanifolds in complex hyperbolic spaces.

We construct examples of free-by-cyclic hyperbolic groups which fiber in infinitely many ways over Z. The construction involves adding a specialized square 2-cell to a non-positively curved, squared 2-complex defined by labeled oriented graphs. The fundamental groups of the resulting complexes are hyperbolic, free-by-c…

New groups with special properties found.

Drilling hyperbolic groups to simplify complex conjectures.

The study shows how quotients of mapping class groups are hierarchically hyperbolic.

In this paper we will consider the 2-fold symmetric complex hyperbolic triangle groups generated by three complex reflections through angle 2pi/p with p no smaller than 2. We will mainly concentrate on the groups where some elements are elliptic of finite order. Then we will classify all such groups which are candidate…

This paper generalizes property (QT) to a broader class of groups.

In this paper we mainly pay attention to the complex hyperbolic triangle groups of type (m, n, infinity) and discuss the discreteness. From the results more explicit conclusions about the triangle groups of type (n, infinity, infinity) will also be given.