Quasi-flats in semihyperbolic groups

Papasoglu, P.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04467-0

Quasi-flats in semihyperbolic groups
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by P. Papasoglu

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 1267-1273

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04467-0

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Abstract:

We prove that the Cayley graph of a group which is semihyperbolic but not hyperbolic contains a subset quasi-isometric to $\mathbb {R}^{2}$.

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