Metric compactifications and coarse structures

Abstract: Let

m a t h b f T B

be the category of totally bounded, locally compact metric spaces with the

C_{0}

coarse structures. We show that if

X

and

Y

are in

m a t h b f T B

then

X

and

Y

are coarsely equivalent if and only if their Higson coronas are homeomorphic. In fact, the Higson corona functor gives an equivalence of categories

m a t h b f T B o m a t h b f K

, where

m a t h b f K

is the category of compact metrizable spaces. We use this fact to show that the continuously controlled coarse structure on a locally compact space

X

induced by some metrizable compactification

i l d e X

is determined only by the topology of the remainder

i l d e X s e t m i n u s X

.

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