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The Horofunction boundary of the Heisenberg Group: The Carnot-Carathéodory metric
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Conform. Geom. Dyn. 14 (2010), 269-295 Request permission

Abstract:

We find the horofunction boundary of the $(2n+1)$-dimensional Heisenberg group with the Carnot-Carathéodory distance and show that it is homeomorphic to a $2n$-dimensional disk and that the Busemann points correspond to the $(2n-1)$-sphere boundary of this disk. We also show that the compactified Heisenberg group is homeomorphic to a $(2n+1)$-dimensional sphere. As an application, we find the group of isometries of the Carnot-Carathéodory distance.
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Additional Information
  • Tom Klein
  • Affiliation: 325 Island Drive, Apt 6, Madison, Wisconsin 53705
  • Email: klein@math.binghamton.edu
  • Andrew Nicas
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
  • MR Author ID: 131000
  • Email: nicas@mcmaster.ca
  • Received by editor(s): February 26, 2010
  • Published electronically: November 17, 2010
  • Additional Notes: The second author was partially supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 14 (2010), 269-295
  • MSC (2010): Primary 20F65, 22E25, 53C23, 53C70
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-2010-00217-1
  • MathSciNet review: 2738530