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This paper is a survey of some of the developments in coarse extrinsic geometry since its inception in the work of Gromov. Distortion, as measured by comparing the diameter of balls relative to different metrics, can be regarded as one of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Mahan Mitra

The present paper is devoted to investigation of the isometry group of the Gromov-Hausdorff space, i.e., the metric space of compact metric spaces considered up to an isometry and endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff metric. The main goal is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Alexander Ivanov , Alexey Tuzhilin

Noncommutative geometry is used to study the local geometry of ultrametric spaces and the geometry of trees at infinity. Connes's example of the noncommutative space of Penrose tilings is interpreted as a non-Hausdorff orbit space of a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Bruce Hughes

We investigate the geometry of the family $\cal M$ of isometry classes of compact metric spaces, endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff metric. We show that sufficiently small neighborhoods of generic finite spaces in the subspace of all finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Stavros Iliadis , Alexander Ivanov , Alexey Tuzhilin

Coarse geometry, and in particular coarse homotopy theory, has proven to be a powerful tool for approaching problems in geometric group theory and higher index theory. In this paper, we continue to develop theory in this area by proving a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Thomas Weighill

We study algebraic and geometric properties of metric spaces endowed with dilatation structures, which are emergent during the passage through smaller and smaller scales. In the limit we obtain a generalization of metric affine geometry,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Marius Buliga

By analogy with the Cayley graph of a group with respect to a finite generating set or the Cayley--Abels graph of a totally disconnected, locally compact group, we detail countable connected graphs associated to Polish groups that we term…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Beth Branman , George Domat , Hannah Hoganson , Robert Alonzo Lyman

Mapping class groups are known to admit geometric (proper, cobounded) actions on injective spaces. Starting with such an action, and relying only on geometric arguments, we show that all finite generating sets resulting from taking large…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Lihuang Ding , Dídac Martínez-Granado , Abdul Zalloum

In the present paper we investigate geometric characteristics of compact metric spaces, which can be described in terms of Gromov-Hausdorff distances to simplexes, i.e., to finite metric spaces such that all their nonzero distances are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Alexander O. Ivanov , Alexey A. Tuzhilin

Our purpose is to study in the setting of locally compact groupoids the analogues of the well-known equivalent definitions of exactness for discrete groups. Our best results are obtained for a class of \'etale groupoids that we call inner…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche

We consider metric versions of the notions of local embeddability and LEF. We pay special attention to normally finitely generated groups with word metrics.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Aleksander Ivanov , Ireneusz Sobstyl

We establish two versions of a central theorem, the Family Colimit Theorem, for the coarse coherence property of metric spaces. This is a coarse geometric property and so is well-defined for finitely generated groups with word metrics. It…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Boris Goldfarb , Jonathan L. Grossman

We continue in this paper the study of locally minimal groups started in \cite{LocMin}. The minimality criterion for dense subgroups of compact groups is extended to local minimality. Using this criterion we characterize the compact abelian…

General Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Lydia Aussenhofer , María Jesús Chasco , Dikran Dikranjan , Xabier Domínguez

Coarse geometry studies metric spaces on the large scale. The recently introduced notion of coarse entropy is a tool to study dynamics from the coarse point of view. We prove that all isometries of a given metric space have the same coarse…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 William Geller , Michał Misiurewicz , Damian Sawicki

This book provides a self-contained introduction to geometric group theory. The topics range from an introduction of Cayley and Schreier graphs to Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth and amenability. We discuss the ping-pong…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Mikhail Belolipetsky , Gisele Teixeira Paula

We study the geometry of nonrelatively hyperbolic groups. Generalizing a result of Schwartz, any quasi-isometric image of a non-relatively hyperbolic space in a relatively hyperbolic space is contained in a bounded neighborhood of a single…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Jason Behrstock , Cornelia Drutu , Lee Mosher

We discuss the problem of deciding when a metrisable topological group $G$ has a canonically defined local Lipschitz geometry. This naturally leads to the concept of minimal metrics on $G$, that we characterise intrinsically in terms of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Christian Rosendal

The objective of this series is to study metric geometric properties of (coarse) disjoint unions of amenable Cayley graphs. We employ the Cayley topology and observe connections between large scale structure of metric spaces and group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Masato Mimura , Hiroki Sako

Approximate lattices are aperiodic generalisations of lattices of locally compact groups that were first studied in seminal work of Yves Meyer. They are defined as those uniformly discrete approximate subgroups (symmetric subsets stable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Simon Machado

We describe locally compact groups which are separably categorical metric structures. The paper extends (and corrects) Section 3 of the paper A.Ivanov, "Locally compact groups and continuous logic", arXiv: 1206.5473

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Aleksander Ivanov