The Horofunction boundary of the Heisenberg Group: The Carnot-Carathéodory metric

DOI10.1090/S1088-4173-2010-00217-1zbMath1218.22005MaRDI QIDQ2997810

Tom Klein, Andrew J. Nicas

Publication date: 9 May 2011

Published in: Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg group; isometries; Carnot-Carathéodory metric; horofunction boundary; Busemann point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F65: Geometric group theory

22E25: Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups

53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces

53C70: Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.)

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