Morse subsets of injective spaces are strongly contracting

  • Alessandro Sisto

    Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
  • Abdul Zalloum

    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics of HIT, Harbin, P. R. China
Morse subsets of injective spaces are strongly contracting cover
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Abstract

We show that a quasi-geodesic in an injective metric space is Morse if and only if it is strongly contracting. Since mapping class groups and, more generally, hierarchically hyperbolic groups act properly and coboundedly on injective metric spaces, we deduce various consequences relating, for example, to growth tightness and genericity of pseudo-Anosovs/Morse elements. Moreover, we show that injective metric spaces have the Morse local-to-global property and that a non-virtually cyclic group acting properly and coboundedly on an injective metric space is acylindrically hyperbolic if and only if contains a Morse ray. We also show that strongly contracting geodesics of a space stay strongly contracting in the injective hull of that space.

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Alessandro Sisto, Abdul Zalloum, Morse subsets of injective spaces are strongly contracting. Groups Geom. Dyn. (2024), published online first

DOI 10.4171/GGD/811