Hyperbolic rank and subexponential corank of metric spaces

DOI10.1007/S00039-002-8247-7MaRDI QIDQ1606012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Viktor Schroeder, Sergei V. Buyalo

Publication date 29 July 2002

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0102109, https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/21934/1/0102109.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

Abstract: We introduce a new quasi-isometry invariant $subcorankX$ 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 $g:XoT$ such that for each $tinT$ the set $g^{-1}(t)$ has subexponential growth rate in $X$ and the topological dimension $dimT=k$ is minimal among all such maps. Our main result is the inequality $hyprankXlesubcorankX$ for a large class of metric spaces $X$ including all locally compact Hadamard spaces, where $hyprankX$ is maximal topological dimension of $diY$ among all $CAT(-1)$ spaces $Y$ quasi-isometrically embedded into $X$ (the notion introduced by M. Gromov in a slightly stronger form). This proves several properties of $hyprank$ conjectured by M. Gromov, in particular, that any Riemannian symmetric space $X$ of noncompact type possesses no quasi-isometric embedding $hy{p}^{n}oX$ of the standard hyperbolic space $hy{p}^n$ with $n-1>dimX-ankX$.

Review text

This paper introduces a new quasi-isometry invariant corank \(X\) of a metric space \(X\) called the subexponential corank. The main result of the paper is that \(\text{rank}_h X\leq\text{corank} X\), where \(\text{rank}_h X\) is the hyperbolic corank, which the authors prefer to rename as the hyperbolic rank. This leads to a proof that (1) for \(X=X_1\times \cdots \times X_m\) a product of Hadamard manifolds with pinched negative curvature, \(\text{rank}_h X\) is the sum of the \(\text{rank}_h X_i\), and (2) if \(X\) is a Riemannian symmetric space of noncompact type then \(\text{rank}_h X=\dim X-\text{rank} X\). These results were conjectured by \textit{M. Gromov} [Geometric group theory, Vol. 2: Asymptotic invariants of infinite groups, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 182 (1993; Zbl 0841.20039)].

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