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On equivariant homeomorphisms of boundaries of CAT(0) groups and Coxeter groups

Group Theory 2014-04-04 v2 Differential Geometry Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate an equivariant homeomorphism of the boundaries X\partial X and Y\partial Y of two proper CAT(0) spaces XX and YY on which a CAT(0) group GG acts geometrically. We provide a sufficient condition and an equivalent condition to obtain a GG-equivariant homeomorphism of the boundaries X\partial X and Y\partial Y as a continuous extension of the quasi-isometry ϕ:Gx0Gy0\phi:Gx_0\rightarrow Gy_0 defined by ϕ(gx0)=gy0\phi(gx_0)=gy_0, where x0Xx_0\in X and y0Yy_0\in Y. In this paper, we say that a CAT(0) group GG is {\it equivariant (boundary) rigid}, if GG determines its ideal boundary by the equivariant homeomorphisms as above. As an application, we introduce some examples of (non-)equivariant rigid CAT(0) groups and we show that if Coxeter groups W1W_1 and W2W_2 are equivariant rigid as reflection groups, then so is W1W2W_1 * W_2. We also provide a conjecture on non-rigidity of boundaries of some CAT(0) groups.

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@article{arxiv.1309.2518,
  title  = {On equivariant homeomorphisms of boundaries of CAT(0) groups and Coxeter groups},
  author = {Tetsuya Hosaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2518},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

31 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1004.4376