On the rate of convergence to the asymptotic cone for nilpotent groups and subFinsler geometry

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1203854109MaRDI QIDQ5170982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Emmanuel Breuillard, Enrico Le Donne

Publication date 25 July 2014

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1613

zbMATH Keywords

abnormal geodesicsfinitely generated nilpotent grouppolynomial growthsub-Riemannian geometryword metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Addressing a question of Gromov, we give a rate in Pansu's theorem about the convergence in Gromov-Hausdorff metric of a finitely generated nilpotent group equipped with a left-invariant word metric scaled by a factor 1/n towards its asymptotic cone. We show that due to the possible presence of abnormal geodesics in the asymptotic cone, this rate cannot be better than n^{1/2} for general non-abelian nilpotent groups. As a corollary we also get an error term of the form vol(B(n))=cn^d + O(n^{d-2/(3r)}) for the volume of Cayley balls of a nilpotent group with nilpotency class r. We also state a number of related conjectural statements.

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