Hyperbolic elements in negatively curved groups

DOI10.1007/BF01264930MaRDI QIDQ1900035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric L. Swenson

Publication date 18 March 1996

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01264930

zbMATH Keywords

boundary at infinitycone typesdouble density theoremhyperbolic elementsinfinite cyclic subgroupsKleinian groupsnegatively curved groupsquasigeodesicsstraight elementstranslation numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Geometric group theory (20F65) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Review text

The paper shows that, in a negatively curved group \(G\) (= Gromov hyperbolic group, see \textit{M. Gromov} [Publ., Math. Sci. Res. Inst. 8, 75-263 (1987; Zbl 0634.20015)]), the conjugacy class of any infinite cyclic subgroup contains a straight element, that is an element \(g\in G\) with \(|g^n|=n|g|\). To prove this fact, the author uses \textit{J. Cannon's} approach [in Hyperbolic geometry and ergodic theory 1989, 315-369 (1991; Zbl 0764.57002)] to negatively curved groups and Cannon's results on cone types and quasigeodesics in such groups. As a corollary, it is obtained that the translation number of an element of a negatively curved group is rational with uniformly bounded (in the group) denominator. This implies that the endpoints of conjugates of a hyperbolic element are dense in the boundary of the group. This resembles the situation with the limit set of Kleinian groups and allows the author to get an extension of another result from Kleinian groups, namely that every normal subgroup of a negatively curved group is either elementary (finite) or has the same boundary at infinity as the group \(G\) itself. The author also proves the double density theorem of Gromov (see the above reference) that any two boundary points in \(\partial G\) are ``almost the endpoints of a hyperbolic element.

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