On the large-scale geometry of diffeomorphism groups of 1-manifolds (Q1689395)

\textit{C. Rosendal} has developed an approach to the coarse geometry of topological groups which unifies aspects of the study of the large scale geometry of finitely-generated groups (the traditional setting), of locally compact groups, and of Banach spaces [``Coarse geometry of topological groups'', Preprint, University of Illinois at Chicago (2017)]. This is applied here to study the group of \(C^k\) diffeomorphisms of a compact \(1\)-manifold. It is shown in particular that this group has a well-defined non-trivial quasi-isometry class if and only if \(k<\infty\), and that the group of \(C^1\) diffeomorphisms of the circle or interval is quasi-isometric to the Banach space \(C([0,1])\).