Genericity of sublinearly Morse directions in CAT(0) spaces and the Teichm\"uller space

Authors Ilya Gekhtman, Yulan Qing, Kasra Rafi

Publication date 9 August 2022

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: We show that the sublinearly Morse directions in the visual boundary of a rank-1 CAT(0) space with a geometric group action are generic in several commonly studied senses of the word, namely with respect to Patterson-Sullivan measures and stationary measures for random walks. We deduce that the sublinearly Morse boundary is a model of the Poisson boundary for finitely supported random walks on groups acting geometrically on rank-1 CAT (0) spaces. We prove an analogous result for mapping class group actions on Teichm"uller space. Our main technical tool is a criterion, valid in any unique geodesic metric space, that says that any geodesic ray with sufficiently many (in a statistical sense) strongly contracting segments is sublinearly contracting.

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