A metric between quasi-isometric trees

Martínez-Pérez, Álvaro

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11286-3

A metric between quasi-isometric trees
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by Álvaro Martínez-Pérez

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 325-335

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11286-3

Published electronically: August 11, 2011

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Abstract:

It is known that PQ-symmetric maps on the boundary characterize the quasi-isometry type of visual hyperbolic spaces, in particular, of geodesically complete $\mathbb {R}$-trees. We define a map on pairs of PQ-symmetric ultrametric spaces which characterizes the branching of the space. We also show that when the ultrametric spaces are the corresponding end spaces, this map defines a metric between rooted geodesically complete simplicial trees with minimal vertex degree 3 in the same quasi-isometry class. Moreover, this metric measures how far the trees are from being rooted isometric.

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