English

On geodesic ray bundles in buildings

Group Theory 2018-10-26 v3 Logic

Abstract

Let XX be a building, identified with its Davis realisation. In this paper, we provide for each xXx\in X and each η\eta in the visual boundary X\partial X of XX a description of the geodesic ray bundle Geo(x,η)Geo(x,\eta), namely, of the reunion of all combinatorial geodesic rays (corresponding to infinite minimal galleries in the chamber graph of XX) starting from xx and pointing towards η\eta. When XX is locally finite and hyperbolic, we show that the symmetric difference between Geo(x,η)Geo(x,\eta) and Geo(y,η)Geo(y,\eta) is always finite, for x,yXx,y\in X and ηX\eta\in\partial X. This gives a positive answer to a question of Huang, Sabok and Shinko in the setting of buildings. Combining their results with a construction of Bourdon, we obtain examples of hyperbolic groups GG with Kazhdan's property (T) such that the GG-action on its Gromov boundary is hyperfinite.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08431,
  title  = {On geodesic ray bundles in buildings},
  author = {Timothée Marquis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08431},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures; minor improvements and corrections, appendix added

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