Quasi-actions and generalised Cayley-Abels graphs of locally compact groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2014-0031zbMATH Open1309.22005arXiv1112.6415OpenAlexW2322420244MaRDI QIDQ486449FDOQ486449

Authors: Pekka Salmi 

Publication date: 15 January 2015

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define the notion of rough Cayley graph for compactly generated locally compact groups in terms of quasi-actions. We construct such a graph for any compactly generated locally compact group using quasi-lattices and show uniqueness up to quasi-isometry. A class of examples is given by the Cayley graphs of cocompact lattices in compactly generated groups. As an application, we show that a compactly generated group has polynomial growth if and only if its rough Cayley graph has polynomial growth (same for intermediate and exponential growth). Moreover, a unimodular compactly generated group is amenable if and only if its rough Cayley graph is amenable as a metric space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6415

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley-Abels graphcompactly generated groupquasi-lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

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