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2005 The ideal boundary of the Sol group
Sungwoon Kim
J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 45(2): 257-263 (2005). DOI: 10.1215/kjm/1250281989

Abstract

We obtain equations of geodesic lines in the Lie group Sol and prove that the ideal boundary of the Sol is a set $\mathcal{R} = \{(x, y, z)| xy = 0,\text{ and } x^{2} +y^{2}+z^{2} = 1\}$ with a degenerate Tits metric, i.e., the distance between different points equals $\infty$.

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Sungwoon Kim. "The ideal boundary of the Sol group." J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 45 (2) 257 - 263, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250281989

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Published: 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 14 August 2009

zbMATH: 1174.53320
MathSciNet: MR2161691
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/kjm/1250281989

Subjects:
Primary: 53C22
Secondary: 57M50

Rights: Copyright © 2005 Kyoto University

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