Metric geometry of locally compact groups (Q325500)

This book is devoted to a comprehensive study of locally compact (LC) groups from the point of view of appropriate metrics. The book presents developments of the notions of coarse and large-scale geometry in the general framework of metric spaces. It includes several examples concerning matrix groups with entries in some locally compact fields such as real numbers, complex numbers and \(p\)-adic fields, isometry groups of various metric spaces. The book consists of eight chapters: 1. `Introduction'; 2. `Basic properties' including the theorems of Birkhoff-Kakutani, Struble, and Kakutani-Kodaira on metrizable groups; 3. `Metric coarse and large-scale categories' in which it is shown how pseudo-metric spaces can be described in terms of their metric lattices; 4. `Groups as pseudo-metric spaces' where the authors show every \(\sigma\)-compact LC-group has an adapted metric and every compactly generated LC-group has a geodesically adapted pseudo-metric; 5. `Examples of compactly generated LC-groups'; 6. `Coarse simple connectedness' in which the (2-skeleton of the) Rips complex of a pseudo-metric space is introduced; 7. `Bounded presentations' where the authors give presentations \(\langle S|R\rangle\) with arbitrary generating set \(S\) and relators in \(R\) of bounded length; 8. `Compactly presented groups' including the Bieri-Strebel splitting theorem, generalized to locally compact groups. This book is a very useful source for graduate students and people interested in coarse geometry and locally compact groups.