An isometric action of the Cremona group on an infinite dimensional hyperbolic space

2011 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Delzant ◽  
Pierre Py

AbstractGeneralizing a classical theorem of Carlson and Toledo, we prove thatanyZariski dense isometric action of a Kähler group on the real hyperbolic space of dimension at least three factors through a homomorphism onto a cocompact discrete subgroup of PSL2(ℝ). We also study actions of Kähler groups on infinite-dimensional real hyperbolic spaces, describe some exotic actions of PSL2(ℝ) on these spaces, and give an application to the study of the Cremona group.


2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1001-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves de Cornulier ◽  
Romain Tessera ◽  
Alain Valette

AbstractOur main result is that a finitely generated nilpotent group has no isometric action on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space with dense orbits. In contrast, we construct such an action with a finitely generated metabelian group.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tushar Das ◽  
Bernd O. Stratmann ◽  
Mariusz Urbański

We generalize the mass redistribution principle and apply it to prove the Bishop–Jones relation for limit sets of metrically proper isometric actions on real infinite-dimensional hyperbolic space. We also show that the Hausdorff and packing measures on the limit sets of convex-cobounded groups are finite and positive and coincide with the conformal Patterson measure, up to a multiplicative constant.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Omer Lavy

We study isometric actions of Steinberg groups on Hadamard manifolds. We prove some rigidity properties related to these actions. In particular, we show that every isometric action of [Formula: see text] on Hadamard manifold when [Formula: see text] factors through a finite quotient. We further study actions on infinite-dimensional manifolds and prove a fixed-point theorem related to such actions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Genevois

Abstract In this article, we state and prove a general criterion allowing us to show that some groups are hyperbolically elementary, meaning that every isometric action of one of these groups on a Gromov-hyperbolic space either fixes a point at infinity, or stabilises a pair of points at infinity, or has bounded orbits. Also, we show how such a hyperbolic rigidity leads to fixed-point properties on finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complexes. As an application, we prove that Thompson’s group V is hyperbolically elementary, and we deduce that it satisfies Property {({\rm FW}_{\infty})} , i.e., every isometric action of V on a finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complex fixes a point. It provides the first example of a (finitely presented) group acting properly on an infinite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complex such that all its actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complexes have global fixed points.


2019 ◽  
Vol 207 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-263
Author(s):  
Floris Claassens

AbstractIn this paper we give a complete description of the horofunction boundary of the infinite dimensional real hyperbolic space, and characterise its Busemann points.


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