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

DOI10.4171/GGD/122zbMATH Open1262.20045arXiv0806.0966MaRDI QIDQ646384FDOQ646384

Authors: Cormac Walsh 

Publication date: 17 November 2011

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

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.

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

Recommendations

• On the horofunction boundary of discrete Heisenberg group
• The horofunction boundary of the Heisenberg group
• The Horofunction boundary of the Heisenberg Group: The Carnot-Carathéodory metric
• Discrete actions on nilpotent Lie groups and negatively curved spaces.
• Linear and projective boundary of nilpotent groups

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)

Cites Work

• The max-plus Martin boundary
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Manifolds of nonpositive curvature
• Word distance on the discrete Heisenberg group
• Group \(C^*\)-algebras as compact quantum metric spaces
• Cayley compactifications of abelian groups
• Busemann points of infinite graphs

Cited In (9)

• On the horofunction boundary of discrete Heisenberg group
• Hahn-Banach for metric functionals and horofunctions
• Sub-Finsler horofunction boundaries of the Heisenberg group
• Entropy and drift for word metrics on relatively hyperbolic groups
• Rational embeddings of hyperbolic groups
• Horofunctions on graphs of linear growth
• Iterated Minkowski sums, horoballs and north-south dynamics
• On behavior of pairs of Teichmüller geodesic rays
• Characterizing the metric compactification of \(L_p\) spaces by random measures

This page was built for publication: The action of a nilpotent group on its horofunction boundary has finite orbits.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q646384)