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The space of directions for hyperbolic totally disconnected locally compact groups

Group Theory 2019-10-18 v2

Abstract

The space of directions is a notion of boundary associated to an arbitrary totally disconnected locally compact group. We explicitly calculate the space of directions of a group acting vertex transitively with compact open vertex stabilisers on a locally finite connected hyperbolic graph. These are examples of groups where techniques from geometric group theory can be generalised from the discrete to the non-discrete case. We show the space of directions for these groups is a discrete metric space. Our results resolve a conjecture of Baumgartner, M\"oller and Willis in the affirmative.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01797,
  title  = {The space of directions for hyperbolic totally disconnected locally compact groups},
  author = {Timothy P. Bywaters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01797},
  year   = {2019}
}

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21 pages; Typing errors and formatting corrected