Characterizations of Stability via Morse Limit Sets

Abstract

Subgroup stability is a strong notion of quasiconvexity that generalizes convex cocompactness in a variety of settings. In this paper, we characterize stability of a subgroup by properties of its limit set on the Morse boundary. Given $H<G$, both finitely generated, $H$ is stable exactly when all the limit points of $H$ are conical, or equivalently when all the limit points of $H$ are horospherical, as long as the limit set of $H$ is a compact subset of the Morse boundary for $G$. We also demonstrate an application of these results in the settings of the mapping class group for a finite type surface, $\text{Mod}(S)$.