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Given any countable group $G$, we construct uncountably many quasi-isometry classes of proper geodesic metric spaces with quasi-isometry group isomorphic to $G$. Moreover, if the group $G$ is a hyperbolic group, the spaces we construct are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Paula Heim , Joseph MacManus , Lawk Mineh

Let $\ell$ be a length function on a group $G$, and let $M_{\ell}$ denote the operator of pointwise multiplication by $\ell$ on $\bell^2(G)$. Following Connes, $M_{\ell}$ can be used as a ``Dirac'' operator for $C_r^*(G)$. It defines a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc A. Rieffel

We look at group actions on metric spaces, particularly at group actions on geodesic hyperbolic spaces. We classify the types of automorphisms on these spaces and prove several results about the density of the hyperbolic limit set of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Matthias Hamann

We study the geometry of Lie groups $G$ with a continuous Finsler metric, assuming the existence of a subgroup $K$ such that the metric is right-invariant for the action of $K$. We present a systematic study of the metric and geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Gabriel Larotonda

Given compact Lie groups H\subset G, we study the space of G-invariant metrics on G/H with nonnegative sectional curvature. For an intermediate subgroup K between H and G, we derive conditions under which enlarging the Lie algebra of K…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-24 Lorenz Schwachhofer , Kristopher Tapp

We characterize those regular, holomorphic or formal maps into the orbit space $V/G$ of a complex representation of a finite group $G$ which admit a regular, holomorphic or formal lift to the representation space $V$. In particular, the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Andreas Kriegl , Mark Losik , Peter W. Michor , Armin Rainer

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 study geodesics of the form $\gamma(t)=\pi(\exp(tX)\exp(tY))$, $X,Y\in \fr{g}=\operatorname{Lie}(G)$, in homogeneous spaces $G/K$, where $\pi:G\rightarrow G/K$ is the natural projection. These curves naturally generalise homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

In this monograph we lay the foundation for a theory of coarse groups and coarse actions. Coarse groups are group objects in the category of coarse spaces, and can be thought of as sets with operations that satisfy the group axioms "up to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Arielle Leitner , Federico Vigolo

Geodesic orbit spaces (or g.o. spaces) are defined as those homogeneous Riemannian spaces $(M=G/H,g)$ whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter subgroups of $G$. The corresponding metric $g$ is called a geodesic orbit metric. We study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris , Marina Statha

We investigate the rudiments of Riemannian geometry on orbit spaces $M/G$ for isometric proper actions of Lie groups on Riemannian manifolds. Minimal geodesic arcs are length minimising curves in the metric space $M/G$ and they can hit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Alekseevsky , Andreas Kriegl , Mark Losik , Peter W. Michor

Quotient space is a class of the most important topological spaces in the research of topology. In this paper, we show that if G is a strongly topological gyrogroup with a symmetric neighborhood base U at 0 and H is an admissible…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Meng Bao , Jie Wang , Xiaoquan Xu

It is known that for every second countable locally compact group G, there exists a proper G-invariant metric which induces the topology of the group. This is no longer true for coset spaces G/H viewed as G-spaces. We study necessary and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group and $H$ a closed subgroup of $G$. Suppose the homogeneous space $G/H$ is effective and has dimension 3 or higher. Consider a $G$-invariant, symmetric, positive-semidefinite, nonzero (0,2)-tensor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Artem Pulemotov

Inspired by group cohomology, we define several coarse topological invariants of metric spaces. We define the coarse cohomological dimension of a metric space, and demonstrate that if G is a countable group, then the coarse cohomological…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Alexander Margolis

It is shown that a topological group G is topologically isomorphic to the isometry group of a (complete) metric space iff G coincides with its G-delta-closure in the Rajkov completion of G (resp. if G is Rajkov-complete). It is also shown…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Piotr Niemiec

We prove analogues of classical results for higher homotopy groups and singular homology groups of pseudotopological spaces. Pseudotopological spaces are a generalization of (\v{C}ech) closure spaces which are in turn a generalization of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Nikola Milićević , Nicholas A. Scoville

The main results of the paper are: \begin{Prop}\label{GenSvarc-Milnor} A group $G$ acting coarsely on a coarse space $(X,\CC)$ induces a coarse equivalence $g\to g\cdot x_0$ from $G$ to $X$ for any $x_0\in X$. \end{Prop} Theorem:…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-27 N. Brodskiy , J. Dydak , A. Mitra

In some scientific fields, a scaling is able to modify the topology of an observed object. Our goal in the present work is to introduce a new formalism adapted to the mathematical representation of this kind of phenomenon. To this end, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Guy Wallet

The equivariant Gromov--Hausdorff convergence of metric spaces is studied. Where all isometry groups under consideration are compact Lie, it is shown that an upper bound on the dimension of the group guarantees that the convergence is by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-23 John Harvey