The visual boundary of Z^2.

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2011.4.103MaRDI QIDQ656024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kyle Kitzmiller, Matt Rathbun

Publication date 26 January 2012

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3982, http://msp.berkeley.edu/involve/2011/4-2/p01.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsfinitely generated groupsgeodesic raysGromov-hyperbolic groupsquasi-isometriesvisual boundariesword metricsword-hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We introduce ideas from geometric group theory related to boundaries of groups. This is a mostly expository paper. We consider the visual boundary of a free abelian group, and show that it is an uncountable set with the trivial topology.

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