Patrick S. Nairne

About me

I was a PhD student studying maths at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Cornelia Druțu from 2020-2024. I was interested in

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Research

We prove that if a group G is relatively hyperbolic with respect to virtually abelian peripheral subgroups then G quasiisometrically embeds into a product of binary trees. This extends Buyalo, Dranishnikov and Schroeder's analogous result for hyperbolic groups. To prove the main theorem, we build upon the projection complex theory of Bestvina, Bromberg and Fujiwara by proving that you can remove some edges from the "quasi-tree of metric spaces" and be left with a "tree of metric spaces" that is quasiisometric to it. By defining diaries and linear statistics we provide a powerful framework by which you can take a quasiisometric embedding of a metric space into a product of infinite-valence trees and upgrade it to a quasiisometric embedding into a product of binary trees. 

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