Boundary amenability of relatively hyperbolic groups. (Q2502981)

A discrete group is said to be exact if it acts amenably on some compact topological space. It was proved by \textit{S. Adams} [Topology 33, No. 4, 765-783 (1994; Zbl 0838.20042)] that the boundary action of a hyperbolic group on its ideal boundary is amenable and hence hyperbolic groups are exact. In the paper under review the author generalizes this to the case of relatively hyperbolic groups. In particular, he proves that the amalgamated free products of exact groups are exact and that a finitely generated group, hyperbolic relative to a family of subgroups \(\mathcal G\) is exact provided each element of \(\mathcal G\) is exact. In the proofs the author uses Bowditch's characterization of relatively hyperbolic groups by fine graphs [see \textit{B. H. Bowditch}, Relatively hyperbolic groups, Preprint (1999)].