The action of a nilpotent group on its horofunction boundary has finite orbits.

DOI10.4171/GGD/122MaRDI QIDQ646384zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Cormac Walsh

Publication date 17 November 2011

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0966

zbMATH Keywords

group actionsBusemann functionshoroballsmax-plus algebrasmetric boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

Abstract: We study the action of a nilpotent group G with finite generating set S on its horofunction boundary. We show that there is one finite orbit associated to each facet of the polytope obtained by projecting S into the infinite component of the abelianisation of G. We also prove that these are the only finite orbits of Busemann points. To finish off, we examine in detail the Heisenberg group with its usual generators.

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