Commensurations and metric properties of Houghton's groups

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.285.289zbMATH Open1397.20052arXiv1403.0026OpenAlexW3106466914MaRDI QIDQ346689FDOQ346689

Authors: José Burillo, Sean Cleary, Armando Martino, Claas E. Röver 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the automorphism groups and the abstract commensurators of Houghton's groups. Then we give sharp estimates for the word metric of these groups and deduce that the commensurators embed into the corresponding quasi-isometry groups. As a further consequence, we obtain that the Houghton group on two rays is at least quadratically distorted in those with three or more rays.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0026

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zbMATH Keywords

commensurationsHoughton's groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

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