Quasi-isometric embeddings of symmetric spaces and lattices: reducible case

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Abstract: We study quasi-isometric embeddings of symmetric spaces and non-uniform irreducible lattices in semisimple higher rank Lie groups. We show that any quasi-isometric embedding between symmetric spaces of the same rank can be decomposed into a product of quasi-isometric embeddings into irreducible symmetric spaces. We thus extend earlier rigidity results about quasi-isometric embeddings to the setting of semisimple Lie groups. We also present some examples when the rigidity does not hold, including first examples in which every flat is mapped into multiple flats.


The main goal of the paper is a rigidity result for quasi-isometric embeddings of higher-rank symmetrics spaces. Roughly speaking, the author shows that every quasi-isometric embedding can be coarsely factored as a product of quasi-isometric embeddings into irreducible factors. More precisely, given products \(X=X_1 \times \cdots \times X_n\) and \(Y=Y_1 \times \cdots \times Y_m\) of either symmetric spaces or Euclidean buildings (without compact/Euclidean factors) and a quasi-isometric embedding \(f:X \rightarrow Y\), then \(f\) is at bounded distance from a product of quasi-isometric embeddings of the form \(f_i:X'_i \rightarrow Y_i\), where \(X'_i\) is a product of irreducible factors of \(X\) and \(\text{rank}(X'_i)=\text{rank}(Y_i)\) for \(i=1,\dots,m\). The proof of the theorem relies on the study of the asymptotic cones of the given spaces and on a coarse factorization result for bi-Lipischitz embeddings between \(\mathbb{R}\)-branched Euclidean buildings. A similar rigidity statement is also proved for higher-rank non-uniform lattices. For pairs of such lattices the author gives a criterion for which a quasi-isometric embedding is at bounded distance from a homomorphism (possibly defined up to a finite index subgroup). The paper ends with some examples where rigidity does not hold.











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