NONVANISHING OF ALGEBRAIC ENTROPY FOR GEOMETRICALLY FINITE GROUPS OF ISOMETRIES OF HADAMARD MANIFOLDS

DOI10.1142/S0218196705002682zbMath1107.20026arXivmath/0408160MaRDI QIDQ3379470

Roger C. Alperin, Guennadi A. Noskov

Publication date: 6 April 2006

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408160

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groups; algebraic entropy; hyperbolic isometries; uniform exponential growth; geometrically finite groups of isometries; neutered spaces; pinched Hadamard manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces

20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups

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