Sublinear biLipschitz equivalence and sublinearly Morse boundaries

Abstract: A sublinear biLipschitz equivalence (SBE) between metric spaces is a map from one space to another that distorts distances with bounded multiplicative constants and sublinear additive error. Given any sublinear function $\kappa$, $\kappa$-Morse boundaries are defined for all geodesic proper metric spaces as a quasi-isometrically invariant and metrizable topological space of quasi-geodesic rays. In this paper, we prove that $\kappa$-Morse boundaries of proper geodesic metric spaces are invariant under suitable SBEs. A tool in the proof is the use of sublinear rays, that is, sublinear bilispchitz embeddings of the half line, generalizing quasi-geodesic rays. As an application we distinguish a pair of right-angled Coxeter groups brought up by Behrstock up to sublinear biLipschitz equivalence. We also show that under mild assumptions, generic random walks on countable groups are sublinear rays.