Subgroup mixing and random walks in groups acting on hyperbolic spaces

Abstract We study the topological dynamics of the action of an acylindrically hyperbolic group on the space of its infinite index convex cocompact subgroups by conjugation. We show that, for any suitable probability measure, random walks with respect to will produce elements with strong mixing properties for this action asymptotically almost surely. In particular, when the group has no finite normal subgroups, this implies that the action is highly topologically transitive. Along the way, we prove technical results about convex cocompact subgroups that allow us to extend some results on random walks of Abbott and the first author.