Uniform growth of groups acting on Cartan-Hadamard spaces.

DOI10.4171/JEMS/283MaRDI QIDQ638779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Besson, Gilles Courtois, Sylvestre (Sylvain) Gallot

Publication date 14 September 2011

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3151

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic entropyfinitely generated groupsgroups acting on Cartan-Hadamard spacesgroups of uniform growthisometry groupsmanifolds with pinched negative curvatureTits alternativevirtually nilpotent groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: Let $X$ be an $n$-dimensional simply connected manifold of pinched sectional curvature $-a^{2}leqKleq-1$. There exist a positive constant $C(n,a)$ such that for any finitely generated discrete group $Gamma$ acting on $X$, then either $Gamma$ is virtually nilpotent or the algebraic entropy $Ent(Gamma)geqC(n,a)$.

Review text

Summary: We investigate the growth of finitely generated groups. We recall the definition of the algebraic entropy of a group and show that if the group is acting as a discrete subgroup of the isometry group of a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with pinched negative curvature then a Tits alternative is true. More precisely the group is either virtually nilpotent or has a uniform growth bounded below by an explicit constant.

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