Quasi-isometries need not induce homeomorphisms of contracting boundaries with the Gromov product topology

DOI10.1515/AGMS-2016-0011MaRDI QIDQ311228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher H. Cashen

Publication date 29 September 2016

Published in Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01660

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) spacecontracting boundarygeodesic spacesGromov boundaryquasi-isometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We consider a `contracting boundary' of a proper geodesic metric space consisting of equivalence classes of geodesic rays that behave like geodesics in a hyperbolic space. We topologize this set via the Gromov product, in analogy to the topology of the boundary of a hyperbolic space. We show that when the space is not hyperbolic, quasi-isometries do not necessarily give homeomorphisms of this boundary. Continuity can fail even when the spaces are required to be CAT(0). We show this by constructing an explicit example.

Review text

The paper under review gives examples that quasi-isometries of \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) spaces do not, in general, induce homeomorphisms of the contracting boundary with subspace topology. The notion of a quasi-isometry invariant of a contracting boundary for a \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) space was introduced by \textit{R. Charney} and \textit{H. Sultan} [J. Topol. 8, No. 1, 93--117 (2015; Zbl 1367.20043)] and it enjoys many of the properties satisfied by boundaries of hyperbolic spaces.NEWLINENEWLINEThe author's example produces a quasi-isometry between \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) spaces but does not induces a continuous map between contracting boundaries. Because of this, the author proposes the following question:NEWLINENEWLINE``If \(\phi\) is a quasi-isometry between proper geodesic spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) that have a cocompact isometry groups and such that \(X\) and \(Y\) are \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\), must \(\partial_C\phi : \partial_C^{G_p} X \rightarrow \partial_C^{G_p} Y\) be a homeomorphism?

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