Coarse structures and group actions

N. Brodskiy, J. Dydak, and A. Mitra. "Coarse structures and group actions." Colloquium Mathematicae 111.1 (2008): 149-158. <http://eudml.org/doc/283544>.

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abstract = { The main results of the paper are: Proposition 0.1. A group G acting coarsely on a coarse space (X,𝓒) induces a coarse equivalence g ↦ g·x₀ from G to X for any x₀ ∈ X. Theorem 0.2. Two coarse structures 𝓒₁ and 𝓒₂ on the same set X are equivalent if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) Bounded sets in 𝓒₁ are identical with bounded sets in 𝓒₂. (2) There is a coarse action ϕ₁ of a group G₁ on (X,𝓒₁) and a coarse action ϕ₂ of a group G₂ on (X,𝓒₂) such that ϕ₁ commutes with ϕ₂. They generalize the following two basic results of coarse geometry: Proposition 0.3 (Shvarts-Milnor lemma [5, Theorem 1.18]). A group G acting properly and cocompactly via isometries on a length space X is finitely generated and induces a quasi-isometry equivalence g ↦ g·x₀ from G to X for any x₀ ∈ X. Theorem 0.4 (Gromov [4, p. 6]). Two finitely generated groups G and H are quasi-isometric if and only if there is a locally compact space X admitting proper and cocompact actions of both G and H that commute. },
author = {N. Brodskiy, J. Dydak, A. Mitra},
journal = {Colloquium Mathematicae},
keywords = {coarse structure; co-compact group action},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {149-158},
title = {Coarse structures and group actions},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/283544},
volume = {111},
year = {2008},
}

TY - JOUR
AU - N. Brodskiy
AU - J. Dydak
AU - A. Mitra
TI - Coarse structures and group actions
JO - Colloquium Mathematicae
PY - 2008
VL - 111
IS - 1
SP - 149
EP - 158
AB - The main results of the paper are: Proposition 0.1. A group G acting coarsely on a coarse space (X,𝓒) induces a coarse equivalence g ↦ g·x₀ from G to X for any x₀ ∈ X. Theorem 0.2. Two coarse structures 𝓒₁ and 𝓒₂ on the same set X are equivalent if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) Bounded sets in 𝓒₁ are identical with bounded sets in 𝓒₂. (2) There is a coarse action ϕ₁ of a group G₁ on (X,𝓒₁) and a coarse action ϕ₂ of a group G₂ on (X,𝓒₂) such that ϕ₁ commutes with ϕ₂. They generalize the following two basic results of coarse geometry: Proposition 0.3 (Shvarts-Milnor lemma [5, Theorem 1.18]). A group G acting properly and cocompactly via isometries on a length space X is finitely generated and induces a quasi-isometry equivalence g ↦ g·x₀ from G to X for any x₀ ∈ X. Theorem 0.4 (Gromov [4, p. 6]). Two finitely generated groups G and H are quasi-isometric if and only if there is a locally compact space X admitting proper and cocompact actions of both G and H that commute.
LA - eng
KW - coarse structure; co-compact group action
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/283544
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