Hyperbolic rank and subexponential corank of metric spaces

Abstract: We introduce a new quasi-isometry invariant

s u b c o r a n k X

of a metric space

X

called {it subexponential corank}. A metric space

X

has subexponential corank

k

if roughly speaking there exists a continuous map

g : X o T

such that for each

t i n T

the set

g^{- 1} (t)

has subexponential growth rate in

X

and the topological dimension

d i m T = k

is minimal among all such maps. Our main result is the inequality

h y p r a n k X l e s u b c o r a n k X

for a large class of metric spaces

X

including all locally compact Hadamard spaces, where

h y p r a n k X

is maximal topological dimension of

d i Y

among all

C A T (- 1)

spaces

Y

quasi-isometrically embedded into

X

(the notion introduced by M. Gromov in a slightly stronger form). This proves several properties of

h y p r a n k

conjectured by M. Gromov, in particular, that any Riemannian symmetric space

X

of noncompact type possesses no quasi-isometric embedding

h y p^{n} o X

of the standard hyperbolic space

h y p^{n}

with

n - 1 > d i m X - a n k X

.

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