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

DOI10.1007/S002220050337MaRDI QIDQ1298088zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benson Farb, Lee Mosher

Publication date 12 December 1999

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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