Cross-wired lamplighter groups

zbMATH Open1266.22005arXiv1206.0449MaRDI QIDQ713063FDOQ713063

David Fisher, Neeraj Kashyap, Yves Cornulier

Publication date: 25 October 2012

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a locally compact group to be isomorphic to a closed cocompact subgroup in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph. As a consequence of this condition, we see that every cocompact lattice in the isometry group of a Diestel-Leader graph admits a transitive, proper action on some other Diestel-Leader graph. We also give some examples of lattices that are not virtually lamplighters. This implies the class of discrete groups commensurable to lamplighter groups is not closed under quasi-isometries and, combined with work of Eskin, Fisher and Whyte, gives a characterization of their quasi-isometry class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0449

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zbMATH Keywords

treeBusemann functionDiestel-Leader graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite graphs (05C63) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

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