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Let S be a finite generating set of a torsion-free, nilpotent group G. We show that every automorphism of the Cayley graph Cay(G;S) is affine. (That is, every automorphism of the graph is obtained by composing a group automorphism with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Dave Witte Morris , Joy Morris , Gabriel Verret

We establish central limit theorems for an action of a group G on a hyperbolic space X with respect to the counting measure on a Cayley graph of G. Our techniques allow us to remove the usual assumptions of properness and smoothness of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Ilya Gekhtman , Samuel J. Taylor , Giulio Tiozzo

In this article we prove that the set of torsion-free groups acting by isometries on a hyperbolic metric space whose entropy is bounded above and with a compact quotient is finite. The number of such groups can be estimated in terms of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sylvestre Gallot , Andrea Sambusetti

We show that any graph product of finitely generated groups is hierarchically hyperbolic relative to its vertex groups. We apply this result to answer two questions of Behrstock, Hagen, and Sisto: we show that the syllable metric on any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Daniel Berlyne , Jacob Russell

We construct explicit examples of geodesics in the mapping class group and show that the shadow of a geodesic in mapping class group to the curve graph does not have to be a quasi-geodesic. We also show that the quasi-axis of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Kasra Rafi , Yvon Verberne

In the context of almost complex quantization, a natural generalization of algebro-geometric linear series on a compact symplectic manifold has been proposed. Here we suppose given a compatible action of a finite group and consider the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roberto Paoletti

We introduce the notion of a contractible subshift. This is a strengthening of the notion of strong irreducibility, where we require that the gluings are given by a block map. We show that a subshift is a retract of a full shift if and only…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Leo Poirier , Ville Salo

The aim of this small note is to prove an elementary yet useful properties of finitely presented groups. Let G be a finitely generated group with one end. Fix a (finite) generating set and let $B_n$ be the ball of radius $n$ around $e$. Let…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Antoine Gournay

Let $R$ be a commutative ring and let $U(R)$ be multiplicative group of unit elements of $R$. In 2012, Khashyarmanesh et al. defined generalized unit and unitary Cayley graph, $\Gamma(R, G, S)$, corresponding to a multiplicative subgroup…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mahdi Reza Khorsandi , Seyed Reza Musawi

Let $G$ be a finite insoluble group with soluble radical $ R(G)$. The solubility graph $\Gamma_{\rm S}(G)$ of $G$ is a simple graph whose vertices are the elements of $G\setminus R(G) $ and two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Mina Poozesh , Yousef Zamani

Let $G$ be a finite group. The solubility graph associated with the finite group $G$, denoted by $\Gamma_{\cal S}(G)$, is a simple graph whose vertices are the non-trivial elements of $G$, and there is an edge between two distinct elements…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-04 B. Akbari , Mark L. Lewis , J. Mirzajani , A. R. Moghaddamfar

Let $X$ be a building, identified with its Davis realisation. In this paper, we provide for each $x\in X$ and each $\eta$ in the visual boundary $\partial X$ of $X$ a description of the geodesic ray bundle $Geo(x,\eta)$, namely, of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Timothée Marquis

Let G be a group acting geometrically on a CAT(0) cube complex X. We prove first that G is hyperbolic relative to the collection P of subgroups if and only if the simplicial boundary of X is the disjoint union of a nonempty discrete set,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen

In this note we study the limiting behaviour of real valued functions on hyperbolic groups as we travel along typical geodesic rays in the Gromov boundary of the group. Our results apply to group homomorphisms, certain quasimorphisms and to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Stephen Cantrell

A group $G$ is said to satisfy the finitely generated intersection property (f.g.i.p.) if the intersection of any two finitely generated subgroups of $G$ is again finitely generated. The aim of this article is to understand when the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jordi Delgado , Marco Linton , Jone Lopez de Gamiz Zearra , Mallika Roy , Pascal Weil

We establish growth tightness for a class of groups acting geometrically on a geodesic metric space and containing a contracting element. As a consequence, any group with nontrivial Floyd boundary are proven to be growth tight with respect…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Wenyuan Yang

Consider a one-ended word-hyperbolic group. If it is the fundamental group of a graph of free groups with cyclic edge groups then either it is the fundamental group of a surface or it contains a finitely generated one-ended subgroup of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Henry Wilton

The contracting boundary of a proper geodesic metric space generalizes the Gromov boundary of a hyperbolic space. It consists of contracting geodesics up to bounded Hausdorff distances. Another generalization of the Gromov boundary is the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Vivian He

Let $G$ be a word hyperbolic group in the sense of Gromov and $P$ its associated Rips complex. We prove that the fixed point set $P^H$ is contractible for every finite subgroups $H$ of $G$. This is the main ingredient for proving that $P$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Meintrup , Thomas Schick

We define analogues of the graphs of free splittings, of cyclic splittings, and of maximally-cyclic splittings of $F_N$ for free products of groups, and show their hyperbolicity. Given a countable group $G$ which splits as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Camille Horbez