Hadamard spaces with isolated flats

Details Hadamard spaces with isolated flats Hadamard spaces with isolated flats

2004-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/math/0411232v4

Geom. Topol. 9(2005) 1501-1538

Mathematics

Group Theory

Erratum: See arXiv:0811.3193 for a correction to the appendix of this paper. Published by Geometry and Topology at http://ww

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We explore the geometry of nonpositively curved spaces with isolated flats, and its consequences for groups that act properly discontinuously, cocompactly, and isometrically on such spaces. We prove that the geometric boundary of the space is an invariant of the group up to equivariant homeomorphism. We also prove that any such group is relatively hyperbolic, biautomatic, and satisfies the Tits Alternative. The main step in establishing these results is a characterization of spaces with isolated flats as relatively hyperbolic with respect to flats. Finally we show that a CAT(0) space has isolated flats if and only if its Tits boundary is a disjoint union of isolated points and standard Euclidean spheres. In an appendix written jointly with Hindawi, we extend many of the results of this article to a more general setting in which the isolated subspaces are not required to be flats.

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