Cross-wired lamplighter groups (Q713063)

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.