This book offers an alternative proof of the Bestvina-Feighn combination theorem for trees of hyperbolic spaces and describes uniform quasigeodesics in such spaces. As one of the applications of their description of uniform quasigeodesics, the authors prove the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for inclusion maps of total spaces of subtrees of hyperbolic spaces and of relatively hyperbolic spaces. They also analyze the structure of Cannon-Thurston laminations in this setting. Furthermore, some group-theoretic applications of these results are discussed. This book also contains background material on coarse geometry and geometric group theory.
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Offering an alternative proof of the Bestvina-Feighn theorem for trees of hyperbolic spaces, the work defines uniform quasigeodesics and demonstrates Cannon-Thurston maps for subtrees and relatively hyperbolic spaces. It probes laminations and discusses key group-theoretic outcomes.
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  • Preliminaries on metric geometry
  • Graphs of groups and trees of metric spaces
  • Carpets, ladders, flow-spaces, metric bundles, and their retractions
  • Hyperbolicity of ladders
  • Hyperbolicity of flow-spaces
  • Hyperbolicity of trees of spaces: Putting everything together
  • Description of geodesics
  • Cannon-Thurston maps
  • Cannon-Thurston maps for elatively hyperbolic spaces
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Product details

ISBN
9781470474256
Published
2024-08-31
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Height
254 mm
Width
178 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
278

Biographical note

Michael Kapovich, University of California, Davis, CA, and Pranab Sardar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India.