Counting loxodromics for hyperbolic actions

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12053zbMATH Open1436.20083arXiv1605.02103OpenAlexW3123873453WikidataQ124958957 ScholiaQ124958957MaRDI QIDQ4576148FDOQ4576148

Authors: Ilya Gekhtman, Samuel J. Taylor, Giulio Tiozzo 

Publication date: 12 July 2018

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $GcurvearrowrightX$ be a nonelementary action by isometries of a hyperbolic group $G$ on a hyperbolic metric space $X$. We show that the set of elements of $G$ which act as loxodromic isometries of $X$ is generic. That is, for any finite generating set of $G$, the proportion of $X$--loxodromics in the ball of radius $n$ about the identity in $G$ approaches $1$ as $noinfty$. We also establish several results about the behavior in $X$ of the images of typical geodesic rays in $G$; for example, we prove that they make linear progress in $X$ and converge to the Gromov boundary $partialX$. Our techniques make use of the automatic structure of $G$, Patterson--Sullivan measure on $partialG$, and the ergodic theory of random walks for groups acting on hyperbolic spaces. We discuss various applications, in particular to Mod(S), Out($F_N$), and right--angled Artin groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02103

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85)

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