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

DOI10.4171/GGD/122zbMath1262.20045arXiv0806.0966MaRDI QIDQ646384

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) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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