Asymptotic cones and ultrapowers of Lie groups

Details Asymptotic cones and ultrapowers of Lie groups Asymptotic cones and ultrapowers of Lie groups

2003-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/math/0311101v2

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

to appear in: Bull. Symbolic Logic

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Asymptotic cones of metric spaces were first invented by Gromov. They are metric spaces which capture the 'large-scale structure' of the underlying metric space. Later, van den Dries and Wilkie gave a more general construction of asymptotic cones using ultrapowers. Certain facts about asymptotic cones, like the completeness of the metric space, now follow rather easily from saturation properties of ultrapowers, and in this survey, we want to present two applications of the van den Dries-Wilkie approach. Using ultrapowers we obtain an explicit description of the asymptotic cone of a semisimple Lie group. From this description, using semi-algebraic groups and non-standard methods, we can give a short proof of the Margulis Conjecture. In a second application, we use set theory to answer a question of Gromov.

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