Zooming in on the large-scale geometry of locally compact groups

zbMATH Open1409.22004arXiv1606.05539MaRDI QIDQ3119366FDOQ3119366

Pierre de la Harpe, Yves Cornulier

Publication date: 11 March 2019

Abstract: The purpose of this survey is to describe how locally compact groups can be studied as geometric objects. We will emphasize the main ideas and skip or just sketch most proofs, often referring the reader to our much more detailed book arXiv:1403.3796

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05539

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zbMATH Keywords

locally compact groupsleft-invariant metricquasi-isometrycompact generationcoarse equivalence\(\sigma\)-compactnesscompact presentationcoarse simple connectedness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to topological groups (22-02) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Metric geometry (51F99)

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• Measure equivalence and coarse equivalence for unimodular locally compact groups

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