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

2016/06/15 by Yves Cornulier, de Cornulier, Yves, Pierre de la Harpe +1
Mathematics · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.05539

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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