Une construction du groupe de Fischer
In this paper we investigate the growth of finitely generated groups. We recall the definition of the algebraic entropy of a group and show that if the group is acting as a discrete subgroup of the isometry group of a Cartan–Hadamard manifold with pinched negative curvature then a Tits alternative is true. More precisely the group is either virtually nilpotent or has a uniform growth bounded below by an explicit constant.
We prove that the first reduced cohomology with values in a mixing -representation, , vanishes for a class of amenable groups including connected amenable Lie groups. In particular this solves for this class of amenable groups a conjecture of Gromov saying that every finitely generated amenable group has no first reduced -cohomology. As a byproduct, we prove a conjecture by Pansu. Namely, the first reduced -cohomology on homogeneous, closed at infinity, Riemannian manifolds vanishes. We also...
We classify Veech groups of tame non-compact flat surfaces. In particular we prove that all countable subgroups of ) avoiding the set of mappings of norm less than 1 appear as Veech groups of tame non-compact flat surfaces which are Loch Ness monsters. Conversely, a Veech group of any tame flat surface is either countable, or one of three specific types.
Let be a compactly generated locally compact group and let be a compact generating set. We prove that if has polynomial growth, then is a Følner sequence and we give a polynomial estimate of the rate of decay of Our proof uses only two ingredients: the doubling property and a weak geodesic property that we call Property (M). As a matter of fact, the result remains true in a wide class of doubling metric measured spaces including manifolds and graphs. As an application, we obtain a -pointwise...
We establish an exact formula for the word distance on the discrete Heisenberg group ℍ₃ with its standard set of generators. This formula is then used to prove the almost connectedness of the spheres for this distance.