{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q698128","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q698128","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q698128","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-03-26T18:30:21Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q698128","name":"Maximally symmetric trees.","headline":"Maximally symmetric trees.","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1802414","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q698128","datePublished":"2002-09-18","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q193519"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q329442"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q228703"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q181320"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1023/A:1019685632755","url":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019685632755"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019685632755"],"comment":"Given a finitely generated group \\(G\\), the authors call a `model geometry' for \\(G\\) a proper metric space \\(X\\) on which \\(G\\) acts properly and coboundedly by isometries. Given a metric space \\(X\\), the `quasi-isometry group' of \\(X\\) is the group of self quasi-isometries of \\(X\\) modulo identification of quasi-isometries which have bounded distance in the sup norm.   Given a quasi-isometry class \\(\\mathcal C\\) of finitely generated groups, the authors consider the following questions: (1) Is there a common (coarse) geodesic model geometry for every group in \\(\\mathcal C\\)? (2) Is there a common locally compact group \\(\\Gamma\\) in which every group of \\(\\mathcal C\\) has a discrete, cocompact, finite kernel representation?   The main result of this paper is a characterization of the `best' model geometries for the quasi-isometry class of virtually free groups of finite rank. (The fact that this class is a single quasi-isometry class follows from results of Stallings and Dunwoody.) For that purpose, the authors describe a class of spaces which they call `maximally symmetric trees' and they show that these constitute a class of countably infinite distinct best model geometries for these groups. A substantial part of the paper deals with the description of several characterizations of maximally symmetric trees in quasi-isometric, topological and graph-theoretical terms, and the construction of a maximally symmetric tree as a model geometry for a virtually free group. The proofs of the main results use the theory of edge-indexed graphs developed by Bass and Kulkarni, tree techniques developed by Bass and Lubotzky, and rigidity theorems for quasi-actions on trees which were obtained by the authors of the paper under review in their previous paper [Ann. Math. (2) 158, No. 1, 115-164 (2003; Zbl 1038.20016)]."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-03-26T18:30:21Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}