What is a horocyclic product, and how is it related to lamplighters?

zbMATH Open1343.05082arXiv1401.1976MaRDI QIDQ2803889FDOQ2803889

Authors: Wolfgang Woess 

Publication date: 3 May 2016

Published in: Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is a rather personal introductory outline of an interesting class of geometric, resp. graph- and group-theoretical structures. After an introductive section about their genesis, the general construction of horocyclic products is presented. Three closely related basic structures of this type are explained in more detail: Diestel-Leader graphs, treebolic spaces, and Sol-groups, resp. -manifolds. Emphasis is on their geometry, isometry groups, quasi-isometry classification and boundary at infinity. Subsequently, it is clarified under which parametrisation they admit discrete groups of isometries acting with compact quotient. Finally, further develpoments are reviewed briefly. Remark: the posted version contains a correction of a misprint that appeared on the bottom of page 22 in the version which appeared in IMN.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1976

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphquasi-isometryhorocyclic producttreebolic spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Geometric group theory (20F65) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18)

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