Quasicircle boundaries and exotic almost-isometries

DOI10.5802/AIF.3098zbMATH Open1483.53065arXiv1409.8607OpenAlexW2964113970MaRDI QIDQ1687883FDOQ1687883

Authors: Jean-François Lafont, Benjamin Schmidt, Wouter van Limbeek 

Publication date: 4 January 2018

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider properly discontinuous, isometric, convex cocompact actions of surface groups on a CAT(-1) space. We show that the limit set of such an action, equipped with the canonical visual metric, is a (weak) quasicircle in the sense of Falconer and Marsh. It follows that the visual metrics on such limit sets are classified, up to bi-Lipschitz equivalence, by their Hausdorff dimension. This result applies in particular to boundaries at infinity of the universal cover of a locally CAT(-1) surface. We show that any two periodic CAT(-1) metrics on $mathbb{H}^2$ can be scaled so as to be almost-isometric (though in general, no equivariant almost-isometry exists). We also construct, on each higher genus surface, $k$-dimensional families of equal area Riemannian metrics, with the property that their lifts to the universal covers are pairwise almost-isometric but are not isometric to each other. Finally, we exhibit a gap phenomenon for the optimal multiplicative constant for a quasi-isometry between periodic CAT(-1) metrics on $mathbb{H}^2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8607

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zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionquasi-circlerigidityboundary at infinityquasi-isometrybi-Lipschitz maplimit setalmost-isometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Metric geometry (51F99)

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