Bilateral denseness of the hyperbolic limit points of groups acting on metric spaces (Q1378241): Difference between revisions

The situation treated here has its motivation in graph theory: a group \(G\) operates continuously on a metric space \(X\), in such a way that the operation may be extended to some compactification \(\widehat{X}\) of \(X\). Additional assumptions state that every bounded closed subset of \(X\) is compact, and that \(\widehat{X}\) is first countable. An element \(g\) of \(G\) is called hyperbolic if for some \(x\in X\), \(g^nx\) and \(g^{-n}x\) converge to distinct elements \(g^+\) and \(g^-\) of the boundary \(\partial X=\widehat{X} \smallsetminus X\). Continuing work by \textit{W. Woess} [Math. Z. 214, No. 3, 425-439 (1993; Zbl 0892.54022)], the author studies the boundary structure for systems as described above, under the additional assumption of contractivity, as defined by Woess. Several applications to graph theory are given. In particular, several situations are described in which the set \(\{(g^+,g^-): g\) hyperbolic\} is dense in \(\partial X\times\partial X\), \(X\) being the Cayley graph of \(G\).