Quasi-isometric rigidity for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups. II

DOI10.1007/S002220050337zbMATH Open0931.20035arXivmath/9809010OpenAlexW3106108019MaRDI QIDQ1298088FDOQ1298088

Authors: Benson Farb, Lee Mosher 

Publication date: 12 December 1999

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let BS(1,n)= < a,b: aba^{-1}=b^n >. We prove that any finitely-generated group quasi-isometric to BS(1,n) is (up to finite groups) isomorphic to BS(1,n). We also show that any uniform group of quasisimilarities of the real line is bilipschitz conjugate to an affine group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809010

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupssolvable groupsextensionsfree groupsquasi-isometriesvirtually nilpotent groupsBaumslag-Solitar groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16)

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