Locally compact lacunary hyperbolic groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/402MaRDI QIDQ2013888zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Adrien Le Boudec

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8041

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic coneslacunary hyperbolic groupslocally compact groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: We investigate the class of locally compact lacunary hyperbolic groups. We prove that if a locally compact compactly generated group G admits one asymptotic cone that is a real tree and whose natural transitive isometric action is focal, then G must be a focal hyperbolic group. As an application, we characterize connected Lie groups and linear algebraic groups over an ultrametric local field of characteristic zero having cut-points in one asymptotic cone. We prove several results for locally compact lacunary hyperbolic groups, and extend the characterization of finitely generated lacunary hyperbolic groups to the setting of locally compact groups. We moreover answer a question of Olshanskii, Osin and Sapir about subgroups of lacunary hyperbolic groups.

Review text

Summary: We investigate the class of locally compact lacunary hyperbolic groups. We prove that if a locally compact compactly generated group \(G\) admits one asymptotic cone that is a real tree and whose natural transitive isometric action is focal, then \(G\) must be a focal hyperbolic group. As an application, we characterize connected Lie groups and linear algebraic groups over an ultrametric local eld of characteristic zero having cut-points in one asymptotic cone. We prove several results for locally compact lacunary hyperbolic groups, and extend the characterization of nitely generated lacunary hyperbolic groups to the setting of locally compact groups. We moreover answer a question of \textit{A. Y. Ol'shanskii} et al. [Geom. Topol. 13, No. 4, 2051--2140 (2009; Zbl 1243.20056)] about subgroups of lacunary hyperbolic groups.

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• Lacunary hyperbolic groups. With an appendix by Michael Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner.
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• Lacunary hyperbolic groups. With an appendix by Michael Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner.
• Automorphisms and endomorphisms of lacunary hyperbolic groups
• Locally compact hypergroupoids
• Densely related groups
• Tree-graded asymptotic cones.
• Commability and focal locally compact groups
• Homogeneous Locally Compact Groups with Compact Boundary
• Subgroups, hyperbolicity and cohomological dimension for totally disconnected locally compact groups

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