Invariant measures on the space of horofunctions of a word hyperbolic group

dc.creatorBowen, Lewis Phylip
dc.date2007-12-26
dc.date2008-07-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:49:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:49:57Z
dc.descriptionWe introduce a natural equivalence relation on the space $\sH_0$ of horofunctions of a word hyperbolic group that take the value 0 at the identity. We show that there are only finitely many ergodic measures that are invariant under this relation. This can be viewed as a discrete analog of the Bowen-Marcus theorem. Furthermore, if $η$ is such a measure and $G$ acts on a space $(X,μ)$ by p.m.p. transformations then $η\times μ$ is virtually ergodic with respect to a natural equivalence relation on $\sH_0\times X$. This is comparable to a special case of the Howe-Moore theorem. These results are applied to prove a new ergodic theorem for spherical averages in the case of a word hyperbolic group acting on a finite space.
dc.description37 pages. This new version corrects several typos including one in the statement of theorem 1.5
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4158
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4158
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/164782
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subject37A20, 37A15, 20F67
dc.titleInvariant measures on the space of horofunctions of a word hyperbolic group
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