Ergodic properties of boundary actions and the Nielsen-Schreier theory

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.03.013zbMATH Open1278.37034arXiv0901.4734OpenAlexW2060670182MaRDI QIDQ436239FDOQ436239

Tatiana Nagnibeda, Vadim A. Kaimanovich, R. I. Grigorchuk

Publication date: 20 July 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the basic ergodic properties (ergodicity and conservativity) of the action of an arbitrary subgroup $H$ of a free group $F$ on the boundary $partialF$ with respect to the uniform measure. Our approach is geometrical and combinatorial, and it is based on choosing a system of Nielsen--Schreier generators in $H$ associated with a geodesic spanning tree in the Schreier graph $$. We give several (mod 0) equivalent descriptions of the Hopf decomposition of the boundary into the conservative and the dissipative parts. Further we relate conservativity and dissipativity of the action with the growth of the Schreier graph $X$ and of the subgroup $H$ ($equiv$ cogrowth of $X$), respectively. We also construct numerous examples illustrating connections between various relevant notions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4734

zbMATH Keywords

free groupboundary actionHopf decompositionhorospheric limit setNielsen-Schreier theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85)

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