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Hyperbolic groupoids and duality

Dynamical Systems 2013-12-20 v4

Abstract

We define hyperbolic groupoids, generalizing the notion of a Gromov hyperbolic group. Examples of hyperbolic groupoids include actions of Gromov hyperbolic groups on their boundaries, pseudogroups generated by expanding self-coverings, natural pseudogroups acting on leaves of stable (or unstable) foliation of an Anosov diffeomorphism, e.t.c.. We show that for every hyperbolic groupoid G there is a naturally defined dual groupoid G' acting on the Gromov boundary of a Cayley graph of G, which is also hyperbolic and such that (G')' is equivalent to G.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5603,
  title  = {Hyperbolic groupoids and duality},
  author = {Volodymyr Nekrashevych},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5603},
  year   = {2013}
}

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120 pages, 28 figures

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