Affine Anosov representations and proper actions

Abstract

We define the notion of affine Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into the affine group $\mathsf{SO}^0(n+1,n)\ltimes\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$. We then show that a representation $\rho$ of a word hyperbolic group is affine Anosov if and only if its linear part $\mathtt{L}_\rho$ is Anosov in $\mathsf{SO}^0(n+1,n)$ with respect to the stabilizer of a maximal isotropic plane and $\rho(\Gamma)$ acts properly on $\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$.