Gromov hyperbolicity and uniformity
Abstract
In this paper, we first exhibit an example which answers negatively to a question posed by Herron et al. in 2008. That is, there is a rectifiably connected open set in a proper geodesic metric space so that it is Gromov hyperbolic with respect to the quasihyperbolic metric, and its Gromov boundary endowed with a visual metric is naturally bilipschitz equivalent to its metric boundary, but it is not uniform. Moreover, two positive answers are given under additional hypotheses. It is shown that a metric space is uniform if and only if it is Gromov hyperbolic and the natural map between its Gromov closure and its metric completion exists and satisfies a relatively quasisymmetric condition. Both bounded and unbounded cases are in our considerations via two different uniformization theorems developed recently by Bonk et al. and the first author, respectively. Finally, we characterize uniform metric spaces with uniformly perfect boundaries in terms of Gromov hyperbolicity and Teichmüller's displacement property.
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BibTeX
@misc{zhou2026gromov,
title = {{Gromov hyperbolicity and uniformity}},
author = {Qingshan Zhou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.05416},
eprint = {2611.05416},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05416},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Gromov hyperbolicity and uniformity
AU - Qingshan Zhou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.05416
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05416
AB - In this paper, we first exhibit an example which answers negatively to a question posed by Herron et al. in 2008. That is, there is a rectifiably connected open set in a proper geodesic metric space so that it is Gromov hyperbolic with respect to the quasihyperbolic metric, and its Gromov boundary endowed with a visual metric is naturally bilipschitz equivalent to its metric boundary, but it is not uniform. Moreover, two positive answers are given under additional hypotheses. It is shown that a metric space is uniform if and only if it is Gromov hyperbolic and the natural map between its Gromov closure and its metric completion exists and satisfies a relatively quasisymmetric condition. Both bounded and unbounded cases are in our considerations via two different uniformization theorems developed recently by Bonk et al. and the first author, respectively. Finally, we characterize uniform metric spaces with uniformly perfect boundaries in terms of Gromov hyperbolicity and Teichmüller's displacement property.
ER -