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View SchemaRealising all countable groups as quasi-isometry groups
| Authors | Paula Heim, Joseph MacManus, Lawk Mineh |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.06261vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06261 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Given any countable group $G$, we construct uncountably many quasi-isometry classes of proper geodesic metric spaces with quasi-isometry group isomorphic to $G$. Moreover, if the group $G$ is a hyperbolic group, the spaces we construct are hyperbolic metric spaces. We make use of a rigidity phenomenon for quasi-isometries exhibited by many symmetric spaces, called strong quasi-isometric rigidity. Our method involves the construction of new examples of strongly quasi-isometrically rigid spaces, arising as graphs of strongly quasi-isometrically rigid rank-one symmetric spaces.
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