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Dynamics of strongly I-regular hyperbolic elements on affine buildings

Group Theory 2024-07-16 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The first goal of this article is to investigate a refinement of previously-introduced strongly regular hyperbolic automorphisms of locally finite thick Euclidean buildings Δ\Delta of finite Coxeter system (W,S)(W,S). The new ones are defined for each proper subset ISI \subsetneq S and called strongly II-regular hyperbolic automorphisms of Δ\Delta. Generalizing previous results, we show that such elements exist in any group GG acting cocompactly and by automorphisms on Δ\Delta. Although the dynamics of strongly II-regular hyperbolic elements γ\gamma on the spherical building Δ\partial_\infty \Delta of Δ\Delta is much more complicated than for the strongly regular ones, the limnγn(ξ)\lim\limits_{n\to \infty} \gamma^{n}(\xi) still exists in Δ\partial_\infty \Delta for ideal points ξΔ\xi \in \partial_\infty \Delta that satisfy certain assumptions. An important role in this business is played by the cone topology on ΔΔ\Delta \cup \partial_\infty \Delta and the projection of specific residues of Δ\partial_\infty \Delta on the ideal boundary of Min(γ)Min(\gamma). All the above research is performed in order to achieve the second, and main, goal of the article. Namely, we prove that for closed groups GG with a type-preserving and strongly transitive action by automorphisms on Δ\Delta, the Chabauty limits of certain closed subgroups of GG contain as a normal subgroup the entire unipotent radical of concrete parabolic subgroups of GG.

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@article{arxiv.2407.10320,
  title  = {Dynamics of strongly I-regular hyperbolic elements on affine buildings},
  author = {Corina Ciobotaru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10320},
  year   = {2024}
}
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