We compare the marked length spectra of isometric actions of groups with non-positively curved features. Inspired by the recent works of Butt, we study approximate versions of marked length spectrum rigidity. We show that for pairs of metrics, the supremum of the quotient of their marked length spectra is approximately determined by their marked length spectra restricted to an appropriate finite set of conjugacy classes. Applying this to fundamental groups of closed negatively curved Riemannian manifolds allows us to refine Butt's result. Our results, however, apply in greater generality and do not require the acting group to be hyperbolic. For example, we are able to compare the marked length spectra associated to mapping class groups acting on their Cayley graphs or on the curve graph.
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In a recent paper, Brugallé and Jaramillo-Puentes showed that the coefficients of small codegree of the tropical refined invariant are polynomial in the Newton polygon. This raised the question of the existence of universal polynomials giving these coefficients, that is, polynomials depending only on the genus and the codegree, and with variables the combinatorial data of the Newton polygon. In this paper, we show that such universal polynomials exist for rational enumeration, and we give an explicit formula. The proof relies on the manipulation of floor diagrams.
{"title":"Universal polynomials for tropical refined invariants in genus 0","authors":"Gurvan Mével","doi":"10.1112/jlms.70415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a recent paper, Brugallé and Jaramillo-Puentes showed that the coefficients of small codegree of the tropical refined invariant are polynomial in the Newton polygon. This raised the question of the existence of universal polynomials giving these coefficients, that is, polynomials depending only on the genus and the codegree, and with variables the combinatorial data of the Newton polygon. In this paper, we show that such universal polynomials exist for rational enumeration, and we give an explicit formula. The proof relies on the manipulation of floor diagrams.</p>","PeriodicalId":49989,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the London Mathematical Society-Second Series","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We show that analytic analogs of Brunn–Minkowski-type inequalities fail for functional intrinsic volumes on convex functions. This is demonstrated both through counterexamples and by connecting the problem to results of Colesanti, Hug, and Saorín Gómez. By restricting to a smaller set of admissible functions, we then introduce a family of variational functionals and establish Wulff-type inequalities for these quantities. In addition, we derive inequalities for the corresponding family of mixed functionals, thereby generalizing an earlier Aleksandrov–Fenchel-type inequality by Klartag and recovering a special case of a Pólya–Szegő-type inequality by Klimov, which was also recently investigated by Bianchi, Cianchi, and Gronchi.
{"title":"Inequalities and counterexamples for functional intrinsic volumes and beyond","authors":"Fabian Mussnig, Jacopo Ulivelli","doi":"10.1112/jlms.70422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We show that analytic analogs of Brunn–Minkowski-type inequalities fail for functional intrinsic volumes on convex functions. This is demonstrated both through counterexamples and by connecting the problem to results of Colesanti, Hug, and Saorín Gómez. By restricting to a smaller set of admissible functions, we then introduce a family of variational functionals and establish Wulff-type inequalities for these quantities. In addition, we derive inequalities for the corresponding family of mixed functionals, thereby generalizing an earlier Aleksandrov–Fenchel-type inequality by Klartag and recovering a special case of a Pólya–Szegő-type inequality by Klimov, which was also recently investigated by Bianchi, Cianchi, and Gronchi.</p>","PeriodicalId":49989,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the London Mathematical Society-Second Series","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/jlms.70422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We show that Wise's power alternative is stable under certain group constructions, use this to prove the power alternative for new classes of groups and recover known results from a unified perspective. For groups acting on trees, we introduce a dynamical condition that allows us to deduce the power alternative for the group from the power alternative for its stabilisers of points. As an application, we reduce the power alternative for Artin groups to the power alternative for free-of-infinity Artin groups, under some conditions on their parabolic subgroups. We also introduce a uniform version of the power alternative and prove it, among other things, for a large family of two-dimensional Artin groups. As a corollary, we deduce that these Artin groups have uniform exponential growth. Finally, we prove that the power alternative is stable under taking relatively hyperbolic groups. We apply this to show that various examples, including all free-by-