Cross-wired lamplighter groups

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Authors David Fisher, Neeraj Kashyap, Yves Cornulier

Publication date 25 October 2012

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0449, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2012/18-36.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Busemann functionDiestel-Leader graphtree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite graphs (05C63) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a locally compact group to be isomorphic to a closed cocompact subgroup in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph. As a consequence of this condition, we see that every cocompact lattice in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph admits a transitive, proper action on some other Diestel-Leader graph. We also give some examples of lattices that are not virtually lamplighters. This implies the class of discrete groups commensurable to lamplighter groups is not closed under quasi-isometries and, combined with work of Eskin, Fisher and Whyte, gives a characterization of their quasi-isometry class.

Review text

This paper gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a locally compact group to be isomorphic to a closed cocompact subgroup in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph. It implies that every cocompact lattice in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph admits a transitive, proper action on some other Diestel-Leader graph. Several interesting examples of lattices that are not virtually lamplighters are also presented. These show that the class of discrete groups commensurable to lamplighter groups is not closed under quasi-isometries.

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