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Large-scale geometry of homeomorphism groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2017

KATHRYN MANN  and
CHRISTIAN ROSENDAL
KATHRYN MANN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email kpmann@math.berkeley.edu
CHRISTIAN ROSENDAL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA email rosendal.math@gmail.com
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Abstract

Let $M$ be a compact manifold. We show that the identity component $\operatorname{Homeo}_{0}(M)$ of the group of self-homeomorphisms of $M$ has a well-defined quasi-isometry type, and study its large-scale geometry. Through examples, we relate this large-scale geometry to both the topology of $M$ and the dynamics of group actions on $M$. This gives a rich family of examples of non-locally compact groups to which one can apply the large-scale methods developed in previous work of the second author.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 38 , Issue 7 , October 2018 , pp. 2748 - 2779
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© Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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