Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: We study homogeneous metric spaces, by which we mean connected, locally compact metric spaces whose isometry group acts transitively. After a review of a number of classical results, we use the Gleason–Iwasawa–Montgomery–Yamabe–Zippin structure theory to show that for all positive ϵ , each such space is ( 1 , ϵ ) -quasi-isometric to a connected metric Lie group (metrized with a left-invariant distance that is not necessarily Riemannian). Next, we develop the structure theory of Lie groups to show that every homogeneous metric manifold is homeomorphically roughly isometric to a quotient space of a connected amenable Lie group, and roughly isometric to a simply connected solvable metric Lie group. Third, we investigate solvable metric Lie groups in more detail, and expound on and extend work of Gordon and Wilson [31, 32] and Jablonski [44] on these, showing, for instance, that connected solvable Lie groups may be made isometric if and only if they have the same real-shadow. Finally, we show that homogeneous metric spaces that admit a metric dilation are all metric Lie groups with an automorphic dilation.
Source: Comptes Rendus Mathématique
DOI: 10.5802/crmath.608
Institutions: UNSW Sydney, University of Jyväskylä, University of Fribourg
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Mathematics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404047044