The angle question

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00168-6MaRDI QIDQ5928499zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kim Ruane

Publication date 23 January 2002

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00168-6

zbMATH Keywords

angleboundary of groupsCAT(0) spacegroup of isometriesnon-positive curvatureword hyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Review text

A CAT(0) group is a group which acts isometrically, properly discontinuously and cocompactly on a CAT(0) space. The ``angle question arises when one studies CAT(0) groups of the form \(\Gamma =G\times Z\), with \(G\) word hyperbolic. The author gives an example which shows that a group \(\Gamma\) of this form can act on a CAT(0) space without the subgroup \(G\times \{0\}\) determining a quasi-convex subset of \(X\), and the question is to see how bad can be the orbit of \(G\times \{0\}\) sitting inside \(X\). The author shows then that there is a well-defined ``angle between the orbits of \(G\times \{0\}\) and \(\{e\}\times Z\) and, as a consequence, that the limit set of the orbit of \(G\times \{0\}\) does not contain the endpoints of an axis for the \(Z\)-factor. For this, the author develops techniques for measuring angles between points in \(\partial X\), which are based on Alexandrov's notion of angles in a metric space, which use comparison of triangles.

Recommendations

• Boundaries of \(\text{CAT}(0)\) groups of the form \(\Gamma=G\times H\)
• Geometric invariants of spaces with isolated flats.
• Dynamics of the action of a \(\text{CAT}(0)\) group on the boundary
• Regular elements in CAT(0) groups.
• Asymptotically CAT(0) groups.

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Cited in

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• Boundaries of \(\text{CAT}(0)\) groups of the form \(\Gamma=G\times H\)
• Parabolic isometries of CAT(0) spaces and CAT(0) dimensions.
• Effective codescent morphisms in some varieties of universal algebras
• Angle \(R\)
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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5485646 (Why is no real title available?)
• Cell-like equivalences and boundaries of CAT(0) groups

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