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Coarse equivalence and topological couplings of locally compact groups

Group Theory 2016-10-11 v1

Abstract

A result due to M. Gromov states that any two finitely generated groups {\Gamma} and {\Lambda} are quasi-isometric if and only if they admit a topological coupling, i.e., a commuting pair of proper continuous cocompact actions ΓXΛ\Gamma\curvearrowright X\curvearrowleft \Lambda on a locally compact Hausdorff space. This result is extended here to all (compactly generated) locally compact second countable groups.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03004,
  title  = {Coarse equivalence and topological couplings of locally compact groups},
  author = {Uri Bader and Christian Rosendal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03004},
  year   = {2016}
}