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Commensurations and metric properties of Houghton's groups

Commensurations and metric properties of Houghton's groups
Commensurations and metric properties of Houghton's groups
We describe the automorphism groups and the abstract commensurators of Houghton’s groups. Then we give sharp estimates for the word metric of these groups and deduce that the commensurators embed into the corresponding quasi-isometry groups. As a further consequence, we obtain that the Houghton group on two rays is at least quadratically distorted in those with three or more rays.
Houghton's groups, commensurations
0030-8730
289-301
Burillo, Jose
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Cleary, Sean
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Martino, Armando
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Rover, Claas
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Burillo, Jose
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Cleary, Sean
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Martino, Armando
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Rover, Claas
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Burillo, Jose, Cleary, Sean, Martino, Armando and Rover, Claas (2016) Commensurations and metric properties of Houghton's groups. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 285 (2), 289-301. (doi:10.2140/pjm.2016.285.289).

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We describe the automorphism groups and the abstract commensurators of Houghton’s groups. Then we give sharp estimates for the word metric of these groups and deduce that the commensurators embed into the corresponding quasi-isometry groups. As a further consequence, we obtain that the Houghton group on two rays is at least quadratically distorted in those with three or more rays.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 November 2016
Published date: 21 November 2016
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Keywords: Houghton's groups, commensurations
Organisations: Pure Mathematics

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Local EPrints ID: 405611
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405611
DOI: doi:10.2140/pjm.2016.285.289
ISSN: 0030-8730
PURE UUID: e0737f0a-3108-4432-a1e9-06f7137fac18
ORCID for Armando Martino: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5350-3029

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Date deposited: 08 Feb 2017 15:39
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:59

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Author: Jose Burillo
Author: Sean Cleary
Author: Armando Martino ORCID iD
Author: Claas Rover

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