On the quasi-isometric and bi-Lipschitz classification of 3D Riemannian Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-020-00532-8MaRDI QIDQ1995584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne, Katrin Fässler

Publication date 24 February 2021

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02253

zbMATH Keywords

3D Lie groupsbi-Lipschitzinvariant metricisometricquasi-isometricRiemannian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: This note is concerned with the geometric classification of connected Lie groups of dimension three or less, endowed with left-invariant Riemannian metrics. On the one hand, assembling results from the literature, we give a review of the complete classification of such groups up to quasi-isometries and we compare the quasi-isometric classification with the bi-Lipschitz classification. On the other hand, we study the problem whether two quasi-isometrically equivalent Lie groups may be made isometric if equipped with suitable left-invariant Riemannian metrics. We show that this is the case for three-dimensional simply connected groups, but it is not true in general for multiply connected groups. The counterexample also demonstrates that `may be made isometric' is not a transitive relation.

Review text

Some geometric classifications of all connected Lie groups of dimensions at most 3 with left-invariant Riemannian metrics are considered. The known quasi-isometric classification of such Lie groups is compared with bi-Lipschitz classification. Then the notion of ``groups may be made isometric (which are isometric for some left-invariant Riemannian metrics) is investigated. It is proved that quasi-isometrically equivalent simply connected Lie groups may be made isometric. Also it is shown that the property ``groups may be made isometric is not transitive. Lists of the pairs of at most \(n\)-dimensional Lie groups, \(n\leq3\) are presented which (a) may be made isometric, (b) are bi-Lipschitz equivalent, (c) are quasi-isometrically homeomorphic, (d) are quasi-isometric. Also it is proved that if two non-isomorphic simply connected 3-dimensional Lie groups are quasi-isometric, then they may be made isometric to one of the eight Thurston geometries.

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