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Contractible groups and linear dilatation structures

Marius Buliga
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A dilatation structure on a metric space, arXiv:math/0608536v4, is a notion in between a group and a differential structure, accounting for the approximate self-similarity of the metric space. The basic objects of a dilatation structure are dilatations (or contractions). The axioms of a dilatation structure set the rules of interaction between different dilatations. Linearity is also a property which can be explained with the help of a dilatation structure. In this paper we show that we can speak about two kinds of linearity: the linearity of a function between two dilatation structures and the linearity of the dilatation structure itself. Our main result here is a characterization of contractible groups in terms of dilatation structures. To a normed conical group (normed contractible group) we can naturally associate a linear dilatation structure. Conversely, any linear and strong dilatation structure comes from the dilatation structure of a normed contractible group.

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Marius Buliga. 2007-06-06. Contractible groups and linear dilatation structures. https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1440

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