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We begin a coarse geometric study of Hilbert geometry. Actually we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the natural boundary of a Hilbert geometry to be a corona, which is a nice boundary in coarse geometry. In addition, we show that any Hilbert geometry is uniformly contractible and with coarse bounded geometry. As a consequence of these we see that the coarse Novikov conjecture holds for a Hilbert geometry with a mild condition. Also we show that the asymptotic dimension of any two-dimensional Hilbert geometry is just two. This implies that the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture holds for any two-dimensional Hilbert geometry via Yu’s theorem.
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R. Mineyama: partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows No. 13J01771. S. Oguni: partly supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) Nos. 24740045, 16K17595.
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Mineyama, R., Oguni, Si. On coarse geometric aspects of Hilbert geometry. Monatsh Math 187, 665–680 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-018-1171-1
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