Locally compact convergence groups and n-transitive actions.

DOI10.1007/S00209-014-1334-2zbMATH Open1336.20045OpenAlexW3122659026MaRDI QIDQ484347FDOQ484347

Authors: Mathieu Carette, Dennis Dreesen 

Publication date: 7 January 2015

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: All sigma-compact, locally compact groups acting sharply n-transitively and continuously on compact spaces M have been classified, except for n=2,3 when M is infinite and disconnected. We show that no such actions exist for n=2 and that these actions for n=3 coincide with the action of a hyperbolic group on a space equivariantly homeomorphic to its hyperbolic boundary. We further give a characterization of non-compact groups acting 3-properly and transitively on infinite compact sets as non-elementary boundary transitive hyperbolic groups. The main tool is a generalization to locally compact groups of Bowditch's topological characterization of hyperbolic groups. Finally, in contrast to the case n=3, we show that for n>3, if a locally compact group acts continuously, n-properly and n-cocompactly on a locally connected metrizable compactum M, then M has a local cut point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4021

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zbMATH Keywords

locally compact groupsgeometric group theoryhyperbolic groupsconvergence groupsmultiply transitive actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

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