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We use the interplay between combinatorial and coarse geometric versions of negative curvature to investigate the geometry of infinitely presented graphical $Gr'(1/6)$ small cancellation groups. In particular, we characterize their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Goulnara N. Arzhantseva , Christopher H. Cashen , Dominik Gruber , David Hume

This note records some observations concerning geodesic growth functions. If a nilpotent group is not virtually cyclic then it has exponential geodesic growth with respect to all finite generating sets. On the other hand, if a finitely…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Martin Bridson , Jose Burillo , Murray Elder , Zoran Sunic

We prove that, for any irreducible Artin-Tits group of spherical type $G$, the quotient of $G$ by its center is acylindrically hyperbolic. This is achieved by studying the additional length graph associated to the classical Garside…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Matthieu Calvez , Bert Wiest

We study residual properties of relatively hyperbolic groups. In particular, we show that if a group $G$ is non-elementary and hyperbolic relative to a collection of proper subgroups, then $G$ is SQ-universal.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 G. Arzhantseva , A. Minasyan , D. Osin

We show that in the framework of CAT(0) spaces, any convex combination of two mappings which are firmly nonexpansive -- or which satisfy the more general property $(P_2)$ -- is asymptotically regular, conditional on its fixed point set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Andrei Sipos

For a cocompact group $\G$ of $\slr$ we fix a real non-zero harmonic 1-form $\alpha$. We study the asymptotics of the hyperbolic lattice-counting problem for $\G$ under restrictions imposed by the modular symbols $\modsym{\gamma}{\a}$. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-04-15 Yiannis N. Petridis , Morten S. Risager

We prove a combination theorem for hyperbolic groups, in the case of groups acting on complexes displaying combinatorial features reminiscent of non-positive curvature. Such complexes include for instance weakly systolic complexes and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Alexandre Martin , Damian Osajda

We provide characterizations of Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into real semisimple Lie groups in terms of the existence of equivariant limit maps on the Gromov boundary, the Cartan property and the uniform gap summation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Konstantinos Tsouvalas

We describe homomorphisms $\varphi:H\rightarrow G$ for which the codomain is acylindrically hyperbolic and the domain is a topological group which is either completely metrizable or locally countably compact Hausdorff. It is shown that, in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Oleg Bogopolski , Samuel M. Corson

We characterize convex cocompact subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface in terms of uniform convergence actions on the zero locus of the limit set. We also construct subgroups that act as uniform convergence groups on their limit…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-26 Richard P. Kent , Christopher J Leininger

Suppose that a finitely generated group $G$ is hyperbolic relative to a collection of subgroups $\mathbb{P}=\{P_1,\dots,P_m\}$. Let $H_1,H_2$ be subgroups of $G$ such that $H_1$ is relatively quasiconvex with respect to $\mathbb{P}$ and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Oleg Bogopolski , Kai-Uwe Bux

We prove the Borel Conjecture for a class of groups containing word-hyperbolic groups and groups acting properly, isometrically and cocompactly on a finite dimensional CAT(0)-space.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Arthur Bartels , Wolfgang Lueck

We show that the action on its orbit space induced by a pseudo-Anosov flow on a closed $3$-manifold (and more general Anosov-like actions) can be seen as an isometric action on a Gromov-hyperbolic space. When the flow is not $\R$-covered,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Thomas Barthelmé , Kathryn Mann , Neige Paulet , Abdul Zalloum

We compare the marked length spectra of some pairs of proper and cocompact cubical actions of a non-virtually cyclic group on $\text{CAT}(0)$ cube complexes. The cubulations are required to be virtually co-special, have the same sets of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Stephen Cantrell , Eduardo Reyes

This paper presents a study of generic elements in full isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces. We obtain a complete characterization of Polish ultrametric spaces X whose isometry group Iso(X) contains an open subgroup H with ample…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Maciej Malicki

We here consider inner amenability from a geometric and group theoretical perspective. We prove that for every non-elementary action of a group $G$ on a finite dimensional irreducible CAT(0) cube complex, there is a nonempty $G$-invariant…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Bruno Duchesne , Robin Tucker-Drob , Phillip Wesolek

In this article we prove global rigidity results for hyperbolic actions of higher-rank lattices. Suppose $\Gamma$ is a lattice in semisimple Lie group, all of whose factors have rank $2$ or higher. Let $\alpha$ be a smooth $\Gamma$-action…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Aaron Brown , Federico Rodriguez Hertz , Zhiren Wang

In this thesis, we construct and classify planar noncommutative phase spaces by the coadjoint orbit method on the anisotropic and absolute time kinematical groups. We show that noncommutative symplectic structures can be generated in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Ancille Ngendakumana

We propose the metric notion of strong hyperbolicity as a way of obtaining hyperbolicity with sharp additional properties. Specifically, strongly hyperbolic spaces are Gromov hyperbolic spaces that are metrically well-behaved at infinity,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Bogdan Nica , Jan Spakula

Let $G$ be a countable abelian group. We study ergodic averages associated with configurations of the form $\{ag,bg,(a+b)g\}$ for some $a,b\in\mathbb{Z}$. Under some assumptions on $G$, we prove that the universal characteristic factor for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Or Shalom