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Embedding universal covers of graph manifolds in products of trees

Geometric Topology 2012-04-18 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the universal cover of any graph manifold quasi-isometrically embeds into a product of three trees. In particular we show that the Assouad-Nagata dimension of the universal cover of any closed graph manifold is 3, proving a conjecture of Smirnov.

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@article{arxiv.1112.0263,
  title  = {Embedding universal covers of graph manifolds in products of trees},
  author = {David Hume and Alessandro Sisto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0263},
  year   = {2012}
}

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3 pages, final version - to appear in Proceedings of the AMS