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Svarc-Milnor Lemma: a proof by definition

Geometric Topology 2008-02-27 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The famous \v{S}varc-Milnor Lemma says that a group GG acting properly and cocompactly via isometries on a length space XX is finitely generated and induces a quasi-isometry equivalence ggx0g\to g\cdot x_0 for any x0Xx_0\in X. We redefine the concept of coarseness so that the proof of the Lemma is automatic.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603487,
  title  = {Svarc-Milnor Lemma: a proof by definition},
  author = {N. Brodskiy and J. Dydak and A. Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603487},
  year   = {2008}
}