Examples of Hyperbolic Groups

Question

We already have the Milnor-Svarc Lemma, which tells us that if a group acts "nicely" on a space, then the Cayley graph of the group is quasi-isometric to the given space. This gives us a lot of hyperbolic groups, because hyperbolic manifolds are ubiquitous.

Edit: For example, the MS-lemma tells us that the surface groups are hyperbolic.

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Of course, in the large-scale geometric setting here, we consider two metric spaces equivalent if they are quasi-isometric.

There is a result of Kharlampovich and Myasnikov, in "Hyperbolic groups and free constructions" which allows us to construct a "separated HNN extension" of two hyperbolic groups to yield a hyperbolic group.

What are some other ways of constructing word-hyperbolic groups?

Answer 1

A similar question was asked on MathOverflow recently. The answer of Genevois is pretty comprehensive.