Amenable Groups and Stabilizers of Measures on the Boundary of a Hadamard Manifold.
We give a complete characterization of the locally compact groups that are non elementary Gromov-hyperbolic and amenable. They coincide with the class of mapping tori of discrete or continuous one-parameter groups of compacting automorphisms. We moreover give a description of all Gromov-hyperbolic locally compact groups with a cocompact amenable subgroup: modulo a compact normal subgroup, these turn out to be either rank one simple Lie groups, or automorphism groups of semiregular trees acting doubly...
We study under which condition an amalgamated free product or an HNN-extension over a finite subgroup admits an amenable, transitive and faithful action on an infinite countable set. We show that such an action exists if the initial groups admit an amenable and almost free action with infinite orbits (e.g. virtually free groups or infinite amenable groups). Our result relies on the Baire category Theorem. We extend the result to groups acting on trees.
An interesting connection between the chromatic number of a graph and the connectivity of an associated simplicial complex , its “neighborhood complex”, was found by Lovász in 1978 (cf. L. Lovász [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 25, 319-324 (1978; Zbl 0418.05028)]). In 1986 a generalization to the chromatic number of a -uniform hypergraph , for an odd prime, using an associated simplicial complex , was found ([N. Alon, P. Frankl and L. Lovász, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 298, 359-370 (1986; Zbl 0605.05033)],...