A topological characterisation of hyperbolic groups

We characterise word hyperbolic groups as those groups which act properly discontinuously and cocompactly on the space of distinct triples of a compact metrisable space. This is, in turn, equivalent to a convergence group for which every point of the space is a conical limit point.

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