Linear and projective boundary of nilpotent groups

DOI10.1017/S0017089514000512MaRDI QIDQ2942599zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jörg Lehnert, Norbert Seifter, Elmar Teufl, B. Krön

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in Glasgow Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5405

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupKolmogorov quotientlocally compact Hausdorff groupnilpotent groupspseudometric spacevertex-transitive graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Local properties of groups (20E25) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Geometric group theory (20F65) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

Abstract: We define a pseudometric on the set of all unbounded subsets of a metric space. The Kolmogorov quotient of this pseudometric space is a complete metric space. The definition of the pseudometric is guided by the principle that two unbounded subsets have distance 0 whenever they stay sublinearly close. Based on this pseudometric we introduce and study a general concept of boundaries of metric spaces. Such a boundary is the closure of a subset in the Kolmogorov quotient determined by an arbitrarily chosen family of unbounded subsets. Our interest lies in those boundaries which we get by choosing unbounded cyclic sub-(semi)-groups of a finitely generated group (or more general of a compactly generated, locally compact Hausdorff group). We show that these boundaries are quasi-isometric invariants and determine them in the case of nilpotent groups as a disjoint union of certain spheres (or projective spaces). In addition we apply this concept to vertex-transitive graphs with polynomial growth and to random walks on nilpotent groups.

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