On the horoboundary and the geometry of rays of negatively curved manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2012.259.55MaRDI QIDQ1759641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Françoise Dal'Bo, Marc Peigné, Andrea Sambusetti

Publication date 21 November 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://msp.org/pjm/2012/259-1/p03.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic raygeometrically finiteGromov boundaryhorofunction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

The authors study the Gromov boundary of quotients \(X/\Gamma\) of a Hadamard space \(X\) by an infinite group \(\Gamma\) of isometries. The authors describe some hyperbolic surfaces with infinite fundamental group whose Gromov boundaries exemplify some of the pathologies that can arise. These include divergent rays with equal Busemann functions, points on the Gromov boundary not corresponding to Busemann functions, and the discontinuity of Busemann functions as functions of the initial point and direction of a ray. For a certain class of such quotients \(X/\Gamma\), known as geometrically finite, the authors prove that the Gromov compactification has only conical singularities.

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