A combinatorial higher-rank hyperbolicity condition

arXiv2206.08153MaRDI QIDQ6402282FDOQ6402282

Authors: Martina Jørgensen, Urs Lang 

Publication date: 16 June 2022

Abstract: We investigate a coarse version of a $2(n+1)$-point inequality characterizing metric spaces of combinatorial dimension at most $n$ due to Dress. This condition, experimentally called $(n,delta)$-hyperbolicity, reduces to Gromov's quadruple definition of $delta$-hyperbolicity in case $n=1$. The $l_{i}nfty$-product of $n$ $delta$-hyperbolic spaces is $(n,delta)$-hyperbolic. Every $(n,delta)$-hyperbolic metric space, without any further assumptions, possesses a slim $(n+1)$-simplex property analogous to the slimness of quasi-geodesic triangles in Gromov hyperbolic spaces. In connection with recent work in geometric group theory, we show that every Helly group and every hierarchically hyperbolic group of (asymptotic) rank $n$ acts geometrically on some $(n,delta)$-hyperbolic space.

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