Boundary representations of hyperbolic groups

preprint2016arXivOpen access

Abstract

Let ΓΓ be a Gromov hyperbolic group, endowed with an arbitrary left-invariant hyperbolic metric, quasi-isometric to a word metric. The action of ΓΓ on its boundary ∂Γ\partialΓ endowed with the Patterson-Sullivan measure μμ, after an appropriate normalization, gives rise to a faithful unitary representation of ΓΓ on L2(∂Γ,μ)L^2(\partialΓ,μ). We show that these representations are irreducible, and give criteria for their unitary equivalence in terms of the metrics on ΓΓ. Special cases include quasi-regular representations on the Poisson boundary.

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