Coarse geometry of extended admissible groups

Abstract

Extended admissible groups belong to a particular class of graphs of groups that admit a decomposition generalizing those of non-geometric 3-manifold groups and Croke-Kleiner admissible groups. In this paper, we study several coarse-geometric aspects of extended admissible groups. We show that changing the gluing edge isomorphisms does not affect the quasi-isometry type of these groups. We also prove that, under mild conditions on the vertex groups, extended admissible groups exhibit large-scale nonpositive curvature, thereby answering a question posed by Nguyen-Yang. As an application, our results enlarge the class of extended admissible groups known to admit well-defined quasi-redirecting boundaries, a notion recently introduced by Qing-Rafi. In addition, we compute the divergence of extended admissible groups, generalizing a result of Gersten from non-geometric 3-manifold groups to this broader setting. Finally, we study several aspects of subgroup structure in extended admissible groups.