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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 5 2 i Solution by
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A quasi-isometry has constants , such thatfor all , and every is within of some point of . One may use a separate coarse-surjectivity constant and enlarge to include it. No continuity is required.
Choose with . The triangle inequality givesCombining this with the distortion inequalities for yieldsAlso , so the lower distortion inequality gives . Hence every point of is within of the image of . Taking the larger common error constant shows that is a quasi-isometry. It is a quasi-inverse of a quasi-isometry; both composites are uniformly close to their respective identities.
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