scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1329709

Publication date 21 December 1999

bounded curvature covering spaces geometric groups infinite dimensional groups invariant Riemannian metrics Lie groups locally compact groups topological groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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A \textit{geometry} on a topological group \(G\) consists of a basis \(\{ U_s\}_{s\in S}\) for the topology of \(G\) at the identity \(e,\) where \((S,+)\) is a partially ordered semigroup, having the properties: \(U_s\subset U_t\) if and only if \(s\leq t,\) \(\bigcap_{s{\i}S}U_s=\{ e\},\) \(\bigcup_{s\in S}U_s=G,\) \(U_s^{-1}=U_s,\) and \(U_s\cdot U_t=U_{s+t}\) for all \(s,t\in S.\) The geometries over the ordered semigroup \(S=(0,\infty)\) are called real geometries, and they include Banach and Hilbert spaces, Archimedean valuations on fields, and invariant Riemannian metrics on Lie groups. The geometries having a lower curvature in the sense of A. D. Alexandrov are called generalized Riemannian metrics. A covering space theory is developed in a natural way in the case of some particular geometric groups. The article summarizes (generally, without proofs) recent results concerning these notions, and presents some examples. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0914.00060].

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