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The end space of a topological space is an invariant that represents the many ways of exiting from that space. In this chapter we introduce a version of this invariant for the category of metric spaces and coarse maps.
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In fact, the proof of this property applies to any complete path metric space, as well as the proof of Proposition 6.32.
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Álvarez López, J.A., Candel, A. (2018). Coarse Ends. In: Generic Coarse Geometry of Leaves. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94132-5_6
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