Sublinearly Morse Boundary I: CAT(0) Spaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108442arXiv1909.02096MaRDI QIDQ6324697FDOQ6324697

Yulan Qing, Kasra Rafi

Publication date: 4 September 2019

Abstract: To every Gromov hyperbolic space X one can associate a space at infinity called the Gromov boundary of X. Gromov showed that quasi-isometries of hyperbolic metric spaces induce homeomorphisms on their boundaries, thus giving rise to a well-defined notion of the boundary of a hyperbolic group. Croke and Kleiner showed that the visual boundary of non-positively curved (CAT(0)) groups is not well-defined, since quasi-isometric CAT(0) spaces can have non-homeomorphic boundaries. For any sublinear function $kappa$, we consider a subset of the visual boundary called the $kappa$-Morse boundary and show that it is QI-invariant and metrizable. This is to say, the $kappa$-Morse boundary of a CAT(0) group is well-defined. In the case of Right-angled Artin groups, it is shown in the Appendix that the Poisson boundary of random walks is naturally identified with the $sqrttlogt$--boundary.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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