Indecomposable continua as Higson coronae

Abstract

In this paper, we consider spaces whose Higson coronae are indecomposable continua. We show that for a non-compact proper metric space $X$ which is coarsely geodesic and has coarse bounded geometry, the Higson corona of $X$ is an indecomposable continuum if and only if $X$ is coarsely equivalent to the space of natural numbers. Then we give characterizations of finitely generated groups that have one or two ends by decomposability/indecomposability of the components of their Higson coronae. we characterize it as a group whose Higson corona is a topological sum of two indecomposable continua.