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Characterizations of Morse quasi-geodesics via superlinear divergence and sublinear contraction

Metric Geometry 2017-06-09 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We introduce and begin a systematic study of sublinearly contracting projections. We give two characterizations of Morse quasi-geodesics in an arbitrary geodesic metric space. One is that they are sublinearly contracting; the other is that they have completely superlinear divergence. We give a further characterization of sublinearly contracting projections in terms of projections of geodesic segments.

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@article{arxiv.1601.01897,
  title  = {Characterizations of Morse quasi-geodesics via superlinear divergence and sublinear contraction},
  author = {Goulnara N. Arzhantseva and Christopher H. Cashen and Dominik Gruber and David Hume},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01897},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages, 5 figures. v2: 22 pages, 5 figures. Correction in proof of Thm 7.1. Proof of Prop 4.2 revised for improved clarity. Other minor changes per referee comments. To appear in Documenta Mathematica