Translation-like actions of nilpotent groups

DOI10.1142/S179352531950016XMaRDI QIDQ4968730zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Cohen, Mark Pengitore

Publication date 9 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06999

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic conesgeometric group theorymetric geometrynilpotent groupstranslation-like actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent groups (20F18) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We give a new obstruction to translation-like actions on nilpotent groups. Suppose we are given two finitely generated torsion free nilpotent groups with the same degree of polynomial growth, but non-isomorphic Carnot completions (asymptotic cones). We show that there exists no injective Lipschitz function from one group to the other. It follows that neither group can act translation-like on the other.

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