Journal of Topology Advance Access first published online on February 6, 2008
This version published online on February 8, 2008
Journal of Topology, doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtm013
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© 2008 London Mathematical Society
Dimension of asymptotic cones of Lie groups
IRMAR, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France yves.decornulier@univ-rennes1.fr
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We compute the covering dimension of the asymptotic cone of a connected Lie group. For simply connected solvable Lie groups, this is the codimension of the exponential radical.
As an application of the proof, we give a characterization of connected Lie groups that quasi-isometrically embed into a nonpositively curved metric space.
Received February 6, 2007.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 22E15 (primary), 20F69, 22E25, 54F45 (secondary)
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