Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2018
We introduce properties of metric spaces and, specifically, finitelygenerated groups with word metrics, which we call coarsecoherence and coarse regular coherence. They aregeometric counterparts of the classical algebraic notion of coherence andthe regular coherence property of groups defined and studied by Waldhausen.The new properties can be defined in the general context of coarse metricgeometry and are coarse invariants. In particular, they are quasi-isometryinvariants of spaces and groups. The new framework allows us to provestructural results by developing permanence properties, including theparticularly important fibering permanence property, for coarse regularcoherence.