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Zooming in on the large-scale geometry of locally compact groups

Group Theory 2016-06-20 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The purpose of this survey is to describe how locally compact groups can be studied as geometric objects. We will emphasize the main ideas and skip or just sketch most proofs, often referring the reader to our much more detailed book arXiv:1403.3796

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@article{arxiv.1606.05539,
  title  = {Zooming in on the large-scale geometry of locally compact groups},
  author = {Yves de Cornulier and Pierre de la Harpe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05539},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages