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Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups

Part of:Set theorySpecial aspects of infinite or finite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

JINGYIN HUANG,
MARCIN SABOK and
FORTE SHINKO
JINGYIN HUANG
Affiliation:
McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 805 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9Canada email jingyin.huang@mail.mcgill.ca, marcin.sabok@mcgill.ca, forte.shinko@mail.mcgill.ca
MARCIN SABOK
Affiliation:
McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 805 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9Canada email jingyin.huang@mail.mcgill.ca, marcin.sabok@mcgill.ca, forte.shinko@mail.mcgill.caInstytut Matematyczny PAN, Śniadeckich 8, 00-656Warszawa, Poland
FORTE SHINKO
Affiliation:
McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 805 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9Canada email jingyin.huang@mail.mcgill.ca, marcin.sabok@mcgill.ca, forte.shinko@mail.mcgill.ca
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Abstract

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We show that if a hyperbolic group acts geometrically on a CAT(0) cube complex, then the induced boundary action is hyperfinite. This means that for a cubulated hyperbolic group, the natural action on its Gromov boundary is hyperfinite, which generalizes an old result of Dougherty, Jackson and Kechris for the free group case.

Keywords

group actionstopological dynamicshyperbolic groupshyperfinite equivalence relationsGromov boundary

MSC classification

Primary:03E15: Descriptive set theory
Secondary:20F65: Geometric group theory

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 40 , Issue 9 , September 2020, pp. 2453 - 2466
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