Ends and simple coarse structures (Q2295451)

In this paper, the author introduces the notion of a simple coarse structure, which is defined as an equivalence relation on the set of simple ends of a set \(X\) with a bounded structure \(\mathcal{B}\), where \(\mathcal{B}\) is called a bounded structure (or pre-bornology) on \(X\) if it is a non-empty family of subsets of \(X\) satisfying the following two conditions: 1. If \(A\subset C \in \mathcal{B}\), then \(A\in \mathcal{B}\); 2. If \(A, C \in\mathcal{B}\) and \(A \cap C \ne \emptyset\), then \(A \cup C \in \mathcal{B}\). A sequence \(\{x_n\}_{n=1}^\infty\) of points of \(X\) is called a simple end if \(\{n \in \mathbb{N} \mid x_n \in A \}\) is finite for every \(A \in \mathcal{B}\). After giving examples of simple coarse structures and investigating the connection between simple coarse structures and large-scale structures (which have been introduced by \textit{J. Dydak} and \textit{C. S. Hoffland} [Topology Appl. 155, No. 9, 1013--1021 (2008; Zbl 1145.54032)] and are equivalent to coarse structures due to \textit{J. Roe} [Lectures on coarse geometry. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2003; Zbl 1042.53027)]), the author defines the Higson compactification and the Higson corona for a simple coarse structure. It is proved that the Gromov boundary of a Gromov hyperbolic proper geodesic space is obtained as the Higson corona of a simple coarse structure, and the Freudenthal compactification of a \(\sigma\)-compact locally compact locally connected Hausdorff space is the Higson compactification of a simple coarse structure. Another proof of a theorem of \textit{K. Mine} and \textit{A. Yamashita} [Can. J. Math. 67, No. 5, 1091--1108 (2015; Zbl 1327.54018)] is also given.