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The Furstenberg–Poisson boundary and CAT(0) cube complexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

TALIA FERNÓS
TALIA FERNÓS*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 317 College Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA email t_fernos@uncg.edu
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Abstract

We show under weak hypotheses that $\unicode[STIX]{x2202}X$, the Roller boundary of a finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complex $X$ is the Furstenberg–Poisson boundary of a sufficiently nice random walk on an acting group $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$. In particular, we show that if $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ admits a non-elementary proper action on $X$, and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ is a generating probability measure of finite entropy and finite first logarithmic moment, then there is a $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$-stationary measure on $\unicode[STIX]{x2202}X$ making it the Furstenberg–Poisson boundary for the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$-random walk on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$. We also show that the support is contained in the closure of the regular points. Regular points exhibit strong contracting properties.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , September 2018 , pp. 2180 - 2223
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© Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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