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Fundamental regions for non-isometric group actions

Group Theory 2024-12-02 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We generalise results about isometric group actions on metric spaces and their fundamental regions to the context of merely continuous group actions. In particular, we obtain results that yield the relative compactness of a fundamental region for a cocompact group action. As a consequence, we obtain a criterion for a cocompact cyclic group of semi-Riemannian homotheties to be inessential.

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@article{arxiv.2112.11082,
  title  = {Fundamental regions for non-isometric group actions},
  author = {Thomas Leistner and Stuart Teisseire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11082},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

In v2 the notion of a `strongly locally finite region' in Definition 2.1 replaces the notion of a `finitely self adjacent fundamental region' from v1. As a result, v2 is completely rewritten. See Remark 2.3 for further explanation