Nonexistence of boundary maps for some hierarchically hyperbolic spaces (Q679791)

Quasi isometric maps between Gromov hyperbolic spaces are known to have continuous extensions to a map between the corresponding Gromov boundaries. For example the inclusion map from an undistorted hyperbolic subgroup to a hyperbolic group extends continuously to the boundaries. When the subgroup is arbitrary, this is not necessarily true. \textit{J. W. Cannon} and \textit{W. P. Thurston} [Geom. Topol. 11, 1315--1355 (2007; Zbl 1136.57009)] gave an example of such a continuous extension for the fundamental group of a hyperbolic 3-manifold fibering over a circle with surface fibers. Whenever quasi isometries between groups are concerned, it is important to know when a continuous extension to the boundaries, called a Cannon-Thurston map, exists. This question as well as a possible answer is even more unclear for groups which are not Gromov hyperbolic. In the paper under review the author discusses this question for two different quasi isometric embeddings between a right angled Artin group and the mapping class group of a connected, oriented surface; first one constructed by \textit{M. T. Clay} et al. [Groups Geom. Dyn. 6, No. 2, 249--278 (2012; Zbl 1245.57004)] and the second one given by \textit{T. Koberda} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 22, No. 6, 1541--1590 (2012; Zbl 1282.37024)]. Right angled Artin groups as well as the mapping class group have so called hierarchical hyperbolic structures (HHS), defined by \textit{J. Behrstock} et al. [Geom. Topol. 21, No. 3, 1731--1804 (2017; Zbl 1439.20043)] and as such they have HHS boundaries. The author works with the corresponding HHS boundaries of the groups and concludes that the former quasi isometric embeddings do not extend continuously to a map between HHS boundaries and that the second ones extend under a particular hypothesis. The author as such answers negatively an open question of whether or not HHS boundaries behave like Gromov boundaries for Gromov hyperbolic groups and asks further related questions.