Uniformizing Gromov hyperbolic spaces with Busemann functions

Publication date 21 July 2020

Abstract: Given a complete Gromov hyperbolic space

X

that is roughly starlike from a point

o m e g a

in its Gromov boundary

p a r t i a l_{G} X

, we use a Busemann function based at

o m e g a

to construct an incomplete unbounded uniform metric space

X_{v a r e p s i l o n}

whose boundary

p a r t i a l X_{v a r e p s i l o n}

can be canonically identified with the Gromov boundary

p a r t i a l_{o m e g a} X

of

X

relative to

o m e g a

. This uniformization construction generalizes the procedure used to obtain the Euclidean upper half plane from the hyperbolic plane. Furthermore we show, for an arbitrary metric space

Z

, that there is a hyperbolic filling

X

of

Z

that can be uniformized in such a way that the boundary

p a r t i a l X_{v a r e p s i l o n}

has a biLipschitz identification with the completion

of

Z

. We also prove that this uniformization procedure can be done at an exponent that is often optimal in the case of CAT

(- 1)

spaces.

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