The type and stable type of the boundary of a Gromov hyperbolic group

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9923-5MaRDI QIDQ464254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lewis Bowen

Publication date 17 October 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2181

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov boundaryhyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40)

Abstract: Consider an ergodic non-singular action $GammaccB$ of a countable group on a probability space. The type of this action codes the asymptotic range of the Radon-Nikodym derivative, also called the {em ratio set}. If $GammaccX$ is a pmp (probability-measure-preserving) action, then the ratio set of the product action $GammaccBimesX$ is contained in the ratio set of $GammaccB$. So we define the {em stable ratio set} of $GammaccB$ to be the intersection over all pmp actions $GammaccX$ of the ratio sets of $GammaccBimesX$. By analogy, there is a notion of {em stable type} which codes the stable ratio set of $GammaccB$. This concept is crucially important for the identification of the limit in pointwise ergodic theorems established by the author and Amos Nevo. Here, we establish a general criteria for a nonsingular action of a countable group on a probability space to have stable type $II{I}_{l}ambda$ for some $lambda>0$. This is applied to show that the action of a non-elementary Gromov hyperbolic group on its boundary with respect to a quasi-conformal measure is not type $II{I}_0$ and, if it is weakly mixing, then it is not stable type $II{I}_0$.

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