Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces and their boundaries

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author Biswas, Kingshook
Choudhury, Arkajit Pal
author_facet Biswas, Kingshook
Choudhury, Arkajit Pal
contents The relation between negatively curved spaces and their boundaries is important for various rigidity problems. In \cite{biswas2024quasi}, the class of Gromov hyperbolic spaces called maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces was introduced, and the boundary functor $X \mapsto \partial X$ was shown to give an equivalence of categories between maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces (with morphisms being isometries) and a class of compact quasi-metric spaces called quasi-metric antipodal spaces (with morphisms being Moebius homeomorphisms). The proof of this equivalence involved the construction of a filling functor $Z \mapsto {\mathcal M}(Z)$, associating to any quasi-metric antipodal space $Z$ a maximal Gromov hyperbolic space ${\mathcal M}(Z)$. We study the ``continuity" properties of the boundary and filling functors. We show that convergence of a sequence of quasi-metric antipodal spaces (in a certain sense called ``almost-isometric convergence") implies convergence (in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense) of the associated maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces. Conversely, we show that convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces together with a natural hypothesis of ``equicontinuity" on the boundaries implies convergence of boundaries. We use this to show that Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of a sequence of proper, geodesically complete CAT(-1) spaces implies Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of their boundaries equipped with visual metrics. We also show that convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces to a maximal Gromov hyperbolic space with finite boundary implies convergence of boundaries.
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spellingShingle Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces and their boundaries
Biswas, Kingshook
Choudhury, Arkajit Pal
Metric Geometry
51F99, 30L05, 54E25
The relation between negatively curved spaces and their boundaries is important for various rigidity problems. In \cite{biswas2024quasi}, the class of Gromov hyperbolic spaces called maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces was introduced, and the boundary functor $X \mapsto \partial X$ was shown to give an equivalence of categories between maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces (with morphisms being isometries) and a class of compact quasi-metric spaces called quasi-metric antipodal spaces (with morphisms being Moebius homeomorphisms). The proof of this equivalence involved the construction of a filling functor $Z \mapsto {\mathcal M}(Z)$, associating to any quasi-metric antipodal space $Z$ a maximal Gromov hyperbolic space ${\mathcal M}(Z)$. We study the ``continuity" properties of the boundary and filling functors. We show that convergence of a sequence of quasi-metric antipodal spaces (in a certain sense called ``almost-isometric convergence") implies convergence (in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense) of the associated maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces. Conversely, we show that convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces together with a natural hypothesis of ``equicontinuity" on the boundaries implies convergence of boundaries. We use this to show that Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of a sequence of proper, geodesically complete CAT(-1) spaces implies Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of their boundaries equipped with visual metrics. We also show that convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces to a maximal Gromov hyperbolic space with finite boundary implies convergence of boundaries.
title Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of maximal Gromov hyperbolic spaces and their boundaries
topic Metric Geometry
51F99, 30L05, 54E25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09284