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We generalize the dual notions of "expansion" and "collapse" so they can be applied to arbitrary metric spaces. We also expand the theory to allow for infinitely many such moves. Those tools are then employed to prove a variety of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Craig R. Guilbault , Daniel Gulbrandsen

We construct a boundary for the mapping class group Mod(S) of a surface S of finite type. The action of Mod(S) on this boundary is minimal, strongly proximal and topologically free. The boundary is the boundary of an EZ-structure for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Ursula Hamenstädt

We prove a quasi-Poisson bracket formula for the space of representations of the fundamental groupoid of a surface with boundary, which generalizes Goldman's Poisson bracket formula. We also deduce a similar formula for quasi-Poisson…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Xin Nie

We pose some open problems related to boundedness of real-valued functions on balleans and coarse spaces. Also we prove that the Bergman property of groups is a coarse invariant. A special attention is payed to balleans on groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Taras Banakh , Igor Protasov

We give a notion of boundary pair $(\mathcal{B}_-,\mathcal{B}_+)$ for measured groupoids which generalizes the one introduced by Bader and Furman \cite{BF14} for locally compact groups. In the case of a semidirect groupoid…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Filippo Sarti , Alessio Savini

We introduce ideas from geometric group theory related to boundaries of groups. This is a mostly expository paper. We consider the visual boundary of a free abelian group, and show that it is an uncountable set with the trivial topology.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Kyle Kitzmiller , Matt Rathbun

A quasihomomorphism is a map that satisfies the homomorphism relation up to bounded error. Fujiwara and Kapovich proved a rigidity result for quasihomomorphisms taking values in discrete groups, showing that all quasihomomorphisms can be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Sami Douba , Francesco Fournier-Facio , Sam Hughes , Simon Machado

We define a numerical quasi-isometry invariant of a finitely generated group, whose values parametrize the difference between the group being uniformly embeddable in a Hilbert space and the reduced C*-algebra of the group being exact.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erik Guentner , Jerome Kaminker

We introduce a generalization for bounded geometry that we call bounded scale measure. We show that bounded scale measure is a coarse invariant unlike bounded geometry. We then show equivalent definitions for spaces with bounded scale…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Kevin Sinclair , Logan Higginbotham

For all systolic groups we construct boundaries which are EZ--structures. This implies the Novikov conjecture for torsion--free systolic groups. The boundary is constructed via a system of distinguished geodesics in a systolic complex,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-08-19 Damian Osajda , Piotr Przytycki

\noindent The most natural group topology on $\Z$ is the discrete one. There are other well-known group topologies on $\Z$, like the $p$-adic, defined for any prime number $p$. It is also an important group topology the weak topology with…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Daniel de la Barrera

A Kleinian group $\Gamma < \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H^3)$ is called convex cocompact if any orbit of $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb H^3$ is quasiconvex or, equivalently, $\Gamma$ acts cocompactly on the convex hull of its limit set in $\partial \mathbb…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Matthew Cordes , Matthew Gentry Durham

We introduce a new variant of the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture designed to tackle coarsely disconnected metric spaces called the boundary coarse Baum-Connes conjecture. We prove this conjecture for many coarsely disconnected spaces that…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Martin Finn-Sell , Nick Wright

We generalize Hrushovski's Group Configuration Theorem to quasiminimal classes. As an application, we present Zariski-like structures, a generalization of Zariski geometries, and show that a group can be found there if the pregeometry…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Tapani Hyttinen , Kaisa Kangas

Let $Z \subseteq \proj{n}$ be a fat points scheme, and let $d(Z)$ be the minimum distance of the linear code constructed from $Z$. We show that $d(Z)$ imposes constraints (i.e., upper bounds) on some specific shifts in the graded minimal…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2012-04-02 Stefan O. Tohaneanu , Adam Van Tuyl

In this paper, we investigate an equivariant homeomorphism of the boundaries $\partial X$ and $\partial Y$ of two proper CAT(0) spaces $X$ and $Y$ on which a CAT(0) group $G$ acts geometrically. We provide a sufficient condition and an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Tetsuya Hosaka

Perhaps the fundamental theorem of geometric group theory, the Milnor--Schwarz lemma gives conditions under which the orbit map relating the geometry of a geodesic metric space and the word metric on a group acting isometrically on the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Robert Alonzo Lyman

We introduce a notion of topological property (T) for \'etale groupoids. This simultaneously generalizes Kazhdan's property (T) for groups and geometric property (T) for coarse spaces. One main goal is to use this property (T) to prove the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Clément Dell'Aiera , Rufus Willett

The quasi-redirecting (QR) boundary, introduced by Qing and Rafi, generalizes the Gromov boundary for studying the large-scale geometry of finitely generated groups. Although it is not known to exist for all such groups, its existence has…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Hoang Thanh Nguyen

We offer a short and elementary proof that, for a Z-set A in a finite-dimensional ANR Y, dimA<dimY. This result is relevant to the study of group boundaries. The original proof by Bestvina and Mess relied on cohomological dimension theory.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Craig R. Guilbault , Carrie J. Tirel