On uniqueness of coarse median structures

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A coarse median structure on a metric space is the equivalence class of a coarse median under the relation of being at bounded distance. Hyperbolic spaces admit a unique coarse median structure [\textit{G. A. Niblo} et al. Groups Geom. Dyn. 13, No. 3, 939--980 (2019; Zbl 1515.20233)]. The paper provides new nonhyperbolic examples and studies the permanence of this uniqueness property.\N\NA coarse median structure on a metric space is the equivalence class of a coarse median under the relation of being at bounded distance. The paper studies when such a structure is unique. One of the main results shows that every finite product of bushy geodesic hyperbolic spaces admits a unique coarse median structure. Another main result establishes that uniqueness is preserved under relative hyperbolicity: if \((X,\mathcal P)\) is a geodesic relatively hyperbolic space, each \(P\in\mathcal P\) admits a unique coarse median structure, and there are only finitely many isometry types in \(\mathcal P\), then \(X\) admits a unique coarse median structure.\N\NAs consequences, the right-angled Artin groups \(F_2\times F_2\) and \(\mathbb Z*(F_2\times F_2)\) have unique coarse median structures. The authors also show that, if \(S\) is a connected finite-type surface of genus \(g\) with \(p\) punctures and \(3g+p\leq 6\), then the pants graph of \(S\) has a unique coarse median structure.











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