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Boundaries for geodesic spaces

Metric Geometry 2022-09-13 v2 General Topology Geometric Topology

Abstract

For every proper geodesic space XX we introduce its quasi-geometric boundary QGX\partial_{QG}X with the following properties: 1. Every geodesic ray gg in XX converges to a point of the boundary QGX\partial_{QG}X and for every point pp in QGX\partial_{QG}X there is a geodesic ray in XX converging to pp, 2. The boundary QGX\partial_{QG}X is compact metric, 3. The boundary QGX\partial_{QG}X is an invariant under quasi-isometric equivalences, 4. A quasi-isometric embedding induces a continuous map of quasi-geodesic boundaries, 5. If XX is Gromov hyperbolic, then QGX\partial_{QG}X is the Gromov boundary of XX. 6. If XX is a Croke-Kleiner space, then QGX\partial_{QG}X is a point.

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@article{arxiv.2207.13672,
  title  = {Boundaries for geodesic spaces},
  author = {Jerzy Dydak and Hussain Rashed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13672},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages

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