Growth gap in hyperbolic groups and amenability

DOI10.1007/S00039-018-0459-6zbMATH Open1408.43002arXiv1709.07287OpenAlexW2757992589WikidataQ129475166 ScholiaQ129475166MaRDI QIDQ1794366FDOQ1794366

Rémi B. Coulon, Françoise Dal'Bo, Andrea Sambusetti

Publication date: 15 October 2018

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a general version of the amenability conjecture in the unified setting of a Gromov hyperbolic group G acting properly cocompactly either on its Cayley graph, or on a CAT(-1)-space. Namely, for any subgroup H of G, we show that H is co-amenable in G if and only if their exponential growth rates (with respect to the prescribed action) coincide. For this, we prove a quantified, representation-theoretical version of Stadlbauer's amenability criterion for group extensions of a topologically transitive subshift of finite type, in terms of the spectral radii of the classical Ruelle transfer operator and its corresponding extension. As a consequence, we are able to show that, in our enlarged context, there is a gap between the exponential growth rate of a group with Kazhdan's property (T) and the ones of its infinite index subgroups. This also generalizes a well-known theorem of Corlette for lattices of the quaternionic hyperbolic space or the Cayley hyperbolic plane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07287

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zbMATH Keywords

exponential growthGromov hyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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