Quasi-isometries and rigidity of solvable groups

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2007.V3.N4.A3zbMATH Open1167.22007arXivmath/0511647MaRDI QIDQ930792FDOQ930792

Alex Eskin, David Fisher, Kevin Whyte

Publication date: 1 July 2008

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note, we announce the first results on quasi-isometric rigidity of non-nilpotent polycyclic groups. In particular, we prove that any group quasi-isometric to the three dimenionsional solvable Lie group Sol is virtually a lattice in Sol. We prove analogous results for groups quasi-isometric to $Rltimes{R}^n$ where the semidirect product is defined by a diagonalizable matrix of determinant one with no eigenvalues on the unit circle. Our approach to these problems is to first classify all self quasi-isometries of the solvable Lie group. Our classification of self quasi-isometries for $Rltimes{R}^n$ proves a conjecture made by Farb and Mosher in [FM4]. Our techniques for studying quasi-isometries extend to some other classes of groups and spaces. In particular, we characterize groups quasi-isometric to any lamplighter group, answering a question of de la Harpe [dlH]. Also, we prove that certain Diestel-Leader graphs are not quasi-isometric to any finitely generated group, verifying a conjecture of Diestel and Leader from [DL] and answering a question of Woess from [SW],[Wo1]. We also prove that certain non-unimodular, non-hyperbolic solvable Lie groups are not quasi-isometric to finitely generated groups. The results in this paper are contributions to Gromov's program for classifying finitely generated groups up to quasi-isometry [Gr2]. We introduce a new technique for studying quasi-isometries, which we refer to as "coarse differentiation".

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511647

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie grouppolycyclic groupsquasi-isometric rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25)

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