Conjugation curvature for Cayley graphs

DOI10.1142/S1793525321500096zbMATH Open1498.05123OpenAlexW3093735247MaRDI QIDQ5089941FDOQ5089941

Authors Assaf Bar-Natan, Moon Duchin, Robert Kropholler

Publication date 15 July 2022

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02484

zbMATH Keywords

metric geometryCayley graphscurvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distance in graphs (05C12) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We introduce a notion of Ricci curvature for Cayley graphs that can be thought of as "medium-scale" because it is neither infinitesimal nor asymptotic, but based on a chosen finite radius parameter. We argue that it gives the foundation for a definition of Ricci curvature well adapted to geometric group theory, beginning by observing that the sign can easily be characterized in terms of conjugation in the group. With this conjugation curvature $kappa$, abelian groups are identically flat, and in the other direction we show that $kappaequiv0$ implies the group is virtually abelian. Beyond that, $kappa$ captures known curvature phenomena in right-angled Artin groups (including free groups) and nilpotent groups, and has a strong relationship to other group-theoretic notions like growth rate and dead ends. We study dependence on generators and behavior under embeddings, and close with directions for further development and study.

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