Finiteness conjecture for hyperbolic spaces of irreducible higher-rank lattices

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Let GG be a higher-rank Lie group, or a nontrivial product of locally compact groups, and let Γ\Gamma be an irreducible lattice in GG. A Gromov hyperbolic GG-space is a Gromov hyperbolic metric space equipped with an isometric action of GG; two such spaces are considered equivalent when they are coarsely equivalent. An invariant horoball is a horoball preserved by the action.

Finiteness conjecture. If Γ\Gamma is an irreducible lattice in a higher rank Lie group (or in a nontrivial product of locally compact groups) GG, there are finitely many Gromov hyperbolic GG-spaces, up to coarse equivalence, without invariant horoballs.

The conjecture proposes that the non-elementary hyperbolic actions of irreducible higher-rank lattices have only finitely many coarse-equivalence classes once actions with invariant horoballs are excluded. The supplied source does not indicate whether this finiteness statement has been proved or disproved.

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Primary source

Jason Fox Manning, “Actions of certain arithmetic groups on Gromov hyperbolic spaces”, arXiv:math/0702749 (2008).

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