Quasi-isometrically rigid subgroups in right-angled Coxeter groups

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Abstract

In the spirit of peripheral subgroups in relatively hyperbolic groups, we exhibit a simple class of quasi-isometrically rigid subgroups in graph products of finite groups, which we call eccentric subgroups. As an application, we prove that, if two right-angled Coxeter groups C(Γ1)C(Γ_1) and C(Γ2)C(Γ_2) are quasi-isometric, then for any minsquare subgraph Λ1≤Γ1Λ_1 \leq Γ_1 there exists a minsquare subgraph Λ2≤Γ2Λ_2 \leq Γ_2 such that the right-angled Coxeter groups C(Λ1)C(Λ_1) and C(Λ2)C(Λ_2) are quasi-isometric as well. Various examples of non-quasi-isometric groups are deduced. Our arguments are based on a study of non-hyperbolic Morse subgroups in graph products of finite groups. As a by-product, we are able to determine precisely when a right-angled Coxeter group has all its infinite-index Morse subgroups hyperbolic, answering a question of Russell, Spriano and Tran.

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