What are Nonloxodromic Elements in Group Theory?
A nonloxodromic element is an element of a group that does not have a loxodromic representation, meaning that it does not have any representative in the group that has a bounded orbit. In other words, a nonloxodromic element is one whose action on the group's underlying set is either trivial or has a finite number of orbits.
For example, in the group of integers under addition, the element 1 is nonloxodromic because it acts trivially on the set of integers, and the element -1 is also nonloxodromic because it acts by reversing the order of the integers, but has a finite number of orbits. On the other hand, the element 2 is loxodromic because it acts by shifting the integers by 2, and the orbit of any given integer under this action is infinite.