Median geometry for spaces with measured walls and for groups
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Publication:6289633
arXiv1708.00254MaRDI QIDQ6289633FDOQ6289633
Authors: Indira Chatterji, Cornelia Drutu 
Publication date: 1 August 2017
Abstract: We provide a geometric characterization of spaces with measured walls that embed isometrically into median metric spaces, so that the embedded image is at finite Hausdorff distance from the target median space. Products of real hyperbolic spaces satisfy this geometric property, moreover the corresponding median space is locally compact. As a result, uniform lattices of isometries of such products act properly discontinuously cocompactly on median spaces. These lattices are not cubulable. We explain why complex hyperbolic metric spaces, when endowed with the only known structure of space with measured walls, cannot be at finite Hausdorff distance from a median metric space.
Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50)
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