Cocompact Proper CAT(0) Spaces

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2004-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/math/0407506v1

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Metric Geometry

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This paper is about geometric and topological properties of a proper CAT(0) space $X$ which is cocompact - i.e. which has a compact generating domain with respect to the full isometry group. It is shown that geodesic segments in $X$ can "almost" be extended to geodesic rays. A basic ingredient of the proof of this geometric statement is the topological theorem that there is a top dimension $d$ in which the compactly supported integral cohomology of $X$ is non-zero. It is also proved that the boundary-at-infinity of $X$ (with the cone topology) has Lebesgue covering dimension $d-1$. It is not assumed that there is any cocompact discrete subgroup of the isometry group of $X$; however, a corollary for that case is that "the dimension of the boundary" is a quasi- isometry invariant of CAT(0) groups. (By contrast, it is known that the topological type of the boundary is not unique for a CAT(0) group.)

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