Two applications of strong hyperbolicity

Abstract

We present two analytic applications of the fact that a hyperbolic group can be endowed with a strongly hyperbolic metric. The first application concerns the crossed-product C*-algebra defined by the action of a hyperbolic group on its boundary. We construct a natural time flow, involving the Busemann cocycle on the boundary. This flow has a natural KMS state, coming from the Hausdorff measure on the boundary, which is furthermore unique when the group is torsion-free. The second application is a short new proof of the fact that a hyperbolic group admits a proper isometric action on an ${\ell }^p$-space, for large enough $p$.

8 pages; final version (February 2017), to appear in Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

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• Proper isometric actions of hyperbolic groups on $L^p$-spaces