Commability of groups quasi-isometric to trees

DOI10.5802/AIF.3190zbMATH Open1405.22003arXiv1312.0278OpenAlexW2964003189WikidataQ128859281 ScholiaQ128859281MaRDI QIDQ4610348FDOQ4610348

Authors: Mathieu Carette 

Publication date: 15 January 2019

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Commability is the finest equivalence relation between locally compact groups such that $G$ and $H$ are equivalent whenever there is a continuous proper homomorphism $GoH$ with cocompact image. Answering a question of Cornulier, we show that all non-elementary locally compact groups acting geometrically on locally finite simplicial trees are commable, thereby strengthening previous forms of quasi-isometric rigidity for trees. We further show that 6 homomorphisms always suffice, and provide the first example of a pair of locally compact groups which are commable but without commation consisting of less than 6 homomorphisms. Our strong quasi-isometric rigidity also applies to products of symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings, possibly with some factors being trees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0278

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zbMATH Keywords

groups acting on treesquasi-isometric rigiditycommability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Geometric group theory (20F65) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

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