Cogrowth for group actions with strongly contracting elements

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2018.123zbMATH Open1446.37034arXiv1803.05782OpenAlexW3100719418WikidataQ128826461 ScholiaQ128826461MaRDI QIDQ5113031FDOQ5113031

Goulnara N. Arzhantseva, Christopher H. Cashen

Publication date: 10 June 2020

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a group acting properly by isometries and with a strongly contracting element on a geodesic metric space. Let $N$ be an infinite normal subgroup of $G$, and let $delt{a}_N$ and $delt{a}_G$ be the growth rates of $N$ and $G$ with respect to the pseudo-metric induced by the action. We prove that if $G$ has purely exponential growth with respect to the pseudo-metric then $delt{a}_N/delt{a}_G>1/2$. Our result applies to suitable actions of hyperbolic groups, right-angled Artin groups and other CAT(0) groups, mapping class groups, snowflake groups, small cancellation groups, etc. This extends Grigorchuk's original result on free groups with respect to a word metrics and a recent result of Jaerisch, Matsuzaki, and Yabuki on groups acting on hyperbolic spaces to a much wider class of groups acting on spaces that are not necessarily hyperbolic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05782

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsexponential growthCAT(0) groupscogrowthcontracting element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Orbit growth in dynamical systems (37C35) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85)

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