Morse boundaries of proper geodesic metric spaces

DOI10.4171/GGD/429MaRDI QIDQ1691963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew Cordes

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04376

zbMATH Keywords

boundariesmapping class groupsMorse geodesicsTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the "hyperbolic directions" in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces a well-defined boundary for any finitely generated group. In the case of a proper $mathrmCAT(0)$ space this boundary is the contracting boundary of Charney and Sultan and in the case of a proper Gromov hyperbolic space this boundary is the Gromov boundary. We prove three results about the Morse boundary of Teichm"uller space. First, we show that the Morse boundary of the mapping class group of a surface is homeomorphic to the Morse boundary of the Teichm"uller space of that surface. Second, using a result of Leininger and Schleimer, we show that Morse boundaries of Teichm"uller space can contain spheres of arbitrarily high dimension. Finally, we show that there is an injective continuous map of the Morse boundary of Teichm"uller space into the Thurston compactification of Teichm"uller space by projective measured foliations. An appendix includes a corrigendum to the paper introducing refined Morse gauges to correct the proof and statement of Lemma 2.10.

Review text

Summary: We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the ``hyperbolic directions in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces a well-defined boundary for any finitely generated group. In the case of a proper CAT(0) space this boundary is the contracting boundary of \textit{R. Charney} and \textit{H. Sultan} [J. Topol. 8, No. 1, 93--117 (2015; Zbl 1367.20043)], and in the case of a proper Gromov hyperbolic space this boundary is the Gromov boundary. We prove three results about the Morse boundary of Teichmüller space. First, we show that the Morse boundary of the mapping class group of a surface is homeomorphic to the Morse boundary of the Teichmüller space of that surface. Second, using a result of \textit{C. J. Leininger} and \textit{S. Schleimer} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 16, No. 12, 2669--2692 (2014; Zbl 1310.30038)], we show that Morse boundaries of Teichmüller space can contain spheres of arbitrarily high dimension. Finally, we show that there is an injective continuous map of the Morse boundary of Teichmüller space into the Thurston compactication of Teichmüller space by projective measured foliations.

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