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G^3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast
March 16-19, 2006

Mobile, AL, USA

Organizers
Stephen Brick, Craig Jensen, Igor Mineyev.

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The asymptotic dimension of a curve graph is finite
by
Koji Fujiwara
Tohoku University
Coauthors: Greg Bell

The asymptotic dimension, asdim, of a metric space was defined by Gromov as a quasi-isometric invariant. It was known that a delta-hyperbolic space with bounded geometry has finite asdim. An example is a word-hyperbolic group. We show that the curve graph of a surface has finite asdim. A curve graph is delta-hyperbolic but does not have bounded geometry.

Date received: March 3, 2006

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