On the dynamics of isometries

Karlsson, Anders

doi:10.2140/gt.2005.9.2359

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On the dynamics of isometries

Anders Karlsson

Geometry & Topology 9 (2005) 2359–2394

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2005.9.2359

arXiv: math.MG/0512638

Abstract

We provide an analysis of the dynamics of isometries and semicontractions of metric spaces. Certain subsets of the boundary at infinity play a fundamental role and are identified completely for the standard boundaries of CAT(0)–spaces, Gromov hyperbolic spaces, Hilbert geometries, certain pseudoconvex domains, and partially for Thurston’s boundary of Teichmüller spaces. We present several rather general results concerning groups of isometries, as well as the proof of other more specific new theorems, for example concerning the existence of free nonabelian subgroups in CAT(0)–geometry, iteration of holomorphic maps, a metric Furstenberg lemma, random walks on groups, noncompactness of automorphism groups of convex cones, and boundary behaviour of Kobayashi’s metric.

Keywords

metric spaces, isometries, nonpositive curvature, Kobayashi metric, random walk

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 37B05, 53C24

Secondary: 22F50, 32H50

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Received: 12 March 2005

Accepted: 16 December 2005

Published: 26 December 2005

Proposed: Benson Farb

Seconded: Jean-Pierre Otal, Steven Ferry

Authors

Anders Karlsson
Mathematics Department Royal Institute of Technology 100 44 Stockholm Sweden

Volume 9, issue 4 (2005)