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Boundaries of Baumslag-Solitar Groups

Geometric Topology 2019-08-21 v1

Abstract

A Z\mathcal{Z}-structure on a group GG was introduced by Bestvina in order to extend the notion of a group boundary beyond the realm of CAT(0) and hyperbolic groups. A refinement of this notion, introduced by Farrell and Lafont, includes a GG-equivariance requirement, and is known as an EZ\mathcal{EZ}-structure. The general questions of which groups admit Z\mathcal{Z}- or EZ\mathcal{EZ}-structures remain open. In this paper we add to the current knowledge by showing that all Baumslag-Solitar groups admit EZ\mathcal{EZ}-structures and all generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups admit Z\mathcal{Z}-structures.

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@article{arxiv.1808.07923,
  title  = {Boundaries of Baumslag-Solitar Groups},
  author = {Craig R. Guilbault and Molly A. Moran and Carrie J. Tirel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07923},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures