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Conical limit points and the Cannon-Thurston map
Let be a non-elementary word-hyperbolic group acting as a convergence
group on a compact metrizable space so that there exists a continuous
-equivariant map , which we call a \emph{Cannon-Thurston
map}. We obtain two characterzations (a dynamical one and a geometric one) of
conical limit points in in terms of their pre-images under the
Cannon-Thurston map . As an application we prove, under the extra assumption
that the action of on has no accidental parabolics, that if the map
is not injective then there exists a non-conical limit point with
. This result applies to most natural contexts where the
Cannon-Thurston map is known to exist, including subgroups of word-hyperbolic
groups and Kleinian representations of surface groups. As another application,
we prove that if is a non-elementary torsion-free word-hyperbolic group
then there exists such that is not a "controlled
concentration point" for the action of on .Comment: various minor updates; final version; to appear in Conformal Geometry
and Dynamic
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