A survey on classifying hyperbolic actions of groups

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Hyperbolic actions, that is, isometric actions of groups on hyperbolic metric spaces, play a fundamental role in geometric group theory. They have been used to study the coarse geometry of a wide variety of groups, bounded cohomology [\textit{M. Bestvina} and \textit{K. Fujiwara}, Geom. Topol. 6, 69--89 (2002; Zbl 1021.57001)], quotients of groups [\textit{F. Dahmani} et al., Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 1156 (2016; Zbl 1396.20041)], and decision problems in group theory [\textit{M. R. Bridson}, Oxf. Grad. Texts Math. 7, 29--91 (2002; Zbl 0996.54507)].\N\NThe paper under review aims to provide a survey of the results established in recent years concerning the classification of cobounded actions of any group \(G\). In particular, the author wishes to consider the poset \(\mathcal{H}(G)\), introduced by \textit{C. R. Abbot} et al. [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 19, No. 4, 1747--1835 (2019; Zbl 1481.20165)], of the possible hyperbolic structures of a group \(G\). In some cases, a complete classification of \(\mathcal{H}(G)\) is possible. In situations where such a classification seems difficult to achieve, the author provides descriptions of large subsets of \(\mathcal{H}(G)\). Furthermore, the author covers the range of strategies used to obtain such classification results. He also provides examples of groups for which the structure of \(\mathcal{H}(G)\) is particularly interesting.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1560.20003].



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