CAT(0) spaces with boundary the join of two Cantor sets.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.1107MaRDI QIDQ2441269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Khek Chao

Publication date 24 March 2014

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1047

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0) groupsCAT(0) spacesgeometric group actionsjoins of Cantor setslattices in products of treesspherical joinsTits boundaryvisual boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We will show that if a proper complete CAT(0) space X has a visual boundary homeomorphic to the join of two Cantor sets, and X admits a geometric group action by a group containing a subgroup isomorphic to Z^2, then its Tits boundary is the spherical join of two uncountable discrete sets. If X is geodesically complete, then X is a product, and the group has a finite index subgroup isomorphic to a lattice in the product of two isometry groups of bounded valence bushy trees.

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