Boundary representations of locally compact hyperbolic groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS.70100MaRDI QIDQ6887623zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Glasner

Publication date 9 December 2025

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/PLMS.70100

zbMATH Keywords

boundary representationhyperbolic groupKoopman representationPatterson-Sullivan measuretype I group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65)

Review text

The paper develops a general theory of Patterson-Sullivan measures for second countable locally compact hyperbolic groups and studies the associated Koopman representations on the Gromov boundary. For a left invariant hyperbolic metric quasi-isometric to a word metric, the author constructs a canonical quasi-conformal measure class on the boundary and considers the corresponding unitary boundary representation.\N\NThe main result shows that, for unimodular nonelementary groups, the resulting boundary representation is irreducible. A second theorem establishes a rigidity statement: two such representations are unitarily equivalent if and only if the underlying metrics are roughly similar, providing a precise classification of Patterson-Sullivan representations in this setting. These results extend earlier work of \textit{U.~Bader} and \textit{R.~Muchnik} [J. Mod. Dyn. 5, No. 1, 49-69 (2011; Zbl 1259.46051)] and of \textit{Ł.~Garncarek} [``Boundary representations of hyperbolic groups, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1404.0903}], from discrete to locally compact groups.\N\NFurther applications include a characterization of type~I hyperbolic locally compact groups and a classification of those admitting Gelfand pairs. The paper also introduces an analogue of the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure on the space of pairs of boundary points and proves a double ergodicity result using a measurable geodesic flow.

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