On the quasi-isometric rigidity of chambers and walls in cusp-decomposable manifolds

Abstract

A cusp-decomposable manifold is a manifold constructed from a finite number of complete, negatively curved, finite volume manifolds and identifying the boundaries of truncated cusps by diffeomorphisms. Using properties of the electric space of the universal cover of cusp-decomposable manifolds, we show that the inclusion of walls and pieces induces quasi-isometric embeddings. We also show that isomorphisms between fundamental groups of higher graph manifolds preserve the decomposition into pieces.

21 pages, 3 figures