Higher rank confining subsets and hyperbolic actions of solvable groups (Q6045740)

In some recent papers, the authors have described the hyperbolic actions of several families of solvable groups (see e.g. [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 23, No. 4, 1641--1692 (2023; Zbl 1522.20162)] by the first and the third author). A key tool for these investigations is the machinery of confining subsets of \textit{P.-E. Caprace} et al. [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 17, No. 11, 2903--2947 (2015; Zbl 1330.43002)], which applies, in particular, to solvable groups with virtually cyclic abelianizations. In the paper under review, the authors extend this machinery and give a correspondence between the hyperbolic actions of certain solvable groups with higher-rank abelianizations and confining subsets of these more general groups. They apply this extension to give a complete description of the hyperbolic actions of generalized solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups and to reprove a result of \textit{W. Sgobbi} and \textit{P. Wong} [Commun. Algebra 51, No. 8, 3354--3370 (2023; Zbl 1529.20079)] computing their Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariants.