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Top dimensional quasiflats in $CAT(0)$ cube complexes

Group Theory 2017-06-14 v4 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that every nn-quasiflat in a nn-dimensional CAT(0)CAT(0) cube complex is at finite Hausdorff distance from a finite union of nn-dimensional orthants. Then we introduce a class of cube complexes, called {\em weakly special} cube complexes and show that quasi-isometries between their universal coverings preserve top dimensional flats. We use this to establish several quasi-isometry invariants for right-angled Artin groups. Some of our arguments also extend to CAT(0)CAT(0) spaces of finite geometric dimension. In particular, we give a short proof of the fact that a top dimensional quasiflat in a Euclidean buildings is Hausdorff close to finite union of Weyl cones, which was previously established in several other authors by different methods.

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@article{arxiv.1410.8195,
  title  = {Top dimensional quasiflats in $CAT(0)$ cube complexes},
  author = {Jingyin Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8195},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Modifications and expansions according to referee's comments. 53 pages and 4 figures

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