A comparison of large scale dimension of a metric space to the dimension of its boundary (Q906497)

In [St. Petersbg. Math. J. 19, No. 1, 45--65 (2008); translation from Algebra Anal. 18, No. 1, 60--92 (2007; Zbl 1145.54029)], \textit{S. Buyalo} and \textit{N. Lebedeva} showed that the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic group \(G\), \(\operatorname{asdim}G\), equals the dimension of its boundary plus \(1\). The current work contains a partial extension to the class of groups admitting \(\mathcal Z\)-structures [\textit{A. N. Dranishnikov}, Contemp. Math. 394, 77--85 (2006; Zbl 1106.20034)]. The main results are: Theorem 1. If a group \(G\) admits a \(\mathcal Z\)-structure \((\overline X,Z)\), then \(\dim Z+1\leq\operatorname{asdim}G\). Theorem 2. Suppose a proper metric space \((X,d)\) admits a controlled \(\mathcal Z\)-compactification \(\overline X=X\cup Z\). Then \(\dim Z+1\leq\dim_{\mathrm{mc}}X\). By \(\dim_{\mathrm{mc}}X\) is meant Gromov's macroscopic dimension, and it is known that for any metric space \(X\), \(\dim_{\mathrm{mc}}X\leq\operatorname{asdim}X\). Using this, Theorem 1 is proved by applying Theorem 2.