Property (NL) in Coxeter Groups

Authors

  • Sahana H. Balasubramanya Lafayette College
  • Georgia Burkhalter University of North Georgia
  • Rachel Niebler Haverford College
  • Roberta Shapiro University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46787/pump.v8i.4364

Keywords:

group action; hyperbolic metric space; property (NL); Coxeter group

Abstract

A group has Property (NL) if it does not admit a loxodromic element in any hyperbolic action. In other words, a group with this property is inaccessible for study from the perspective of hyperbolic actions. This property was introduced by Balasubramanya, Fournier-Facio and Genevois, who initiated the study of this property. We expand on this research by studying Property (NL) in Coxeter groups, a class of groups that are defined by an underlying graph. One of our main results show that a right-angled Coxeter group (RACG) has Property (NL) if and only if its defining graph is complete. We then move beyond the right-angled case to show that if a defining graph is disconnected, its corresponding Coxeter group does not have Property (NL). Lastly, we classify which triangle groups (Coxeter groups with three generators) have Property (NL).

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Published

2025-12-24

How to Cite

H. Balasubramanya, S., Burkhalter, G., Niebler, R., & Shapiro, R. (2025). Property (NL) in Coxeter Groups. The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research, 8, 472–485. https://doi.org/10.46787/pump.v8i.4364