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Dense subsets of boundaries of CAT(0) groups

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we study dense subsets of boundaries of CAT(0) groups. Suppose that a group GG acts geometrically on a CAT(0) space XX and suppose that there exists an element g0Gg_0\in G such that (1) Zg0Z_{g_0} is finite, (2) XFg0X\setminus F_{g_0} is not connnected, and (3) each component of XFg0X\setminus F_{g_0} is convex and not g0g_0-invariant, where Zg0Z_{g_0} is the centralizer of g0g_0 and Fg0F_{g_0} is the fixed-point set of g0g_0 in XX (that is, Zg0={hGg0h=hg0}Z_{g_0}=\{h\in G| g_0h=hg_0\} and Fg0={xXg0x=x}F_{g_0}=\{x\in X| g_0x=x\}). Then we show that each orbit GαG \alpha is dense in the boundary X\partial X (i.e.\ X\partial X is minimal) and the set {ggG,o(g)=}\{g^{\infty} | g\in G, o(g)=\infty\} is also dense in the boundary X\partial X. We obtain an application for dense subsets on the boundary of a Coxeter system.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510511,
  title  = {Dense subsets of boundaries of CAT(0) groups},
  author = {Tetsuya Hosaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510511},
  year   = {2007}
}