An illustrated introduction to the coarse topology of lamplighters

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author Genevois, Anthony
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contents Roughly speaking, lamplighter graphs encode the possible configurations of a lamplighter that moves along a given graph and that modifies the colours of lamps at vertices. This article is dedicated to the following delicate question: when do two lamplighter graphs have the same coarse geometry, i.e.\ when are they quasi-isometric? Inspired by elementary ideas from topology, which we will ``coarsify'', I will survey some techniques that allow us to compare efficiently lamplighter graphs (and more) up to quasi-isometry. Based on a minicourse given during the Journées de Topologie Géométrique at the Institut Fourier in August 2025.
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spellingShingle An illustrated introduction to the coarse topology of lamplighters
Genevois, Anthony
Group Theory
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
20F65, 20F69
Roughly speaking, lamplighter graphs encode the possible configurations of a lamplighter that moves along a given graph and that modifies the colours of lamps at vertices. This article is dedicated to the following delicate question: when do two lamplighter graphs have the same coarse geometry, i.e.\ when are they quasi-isometric? Inspired by elementary ideas from topology, which we will ``coarsify'', I will survey some techniques that allow us to compare efficiently lamplighter graphs (and more) up to quasi-isometry. Based on a minicourse given during the Journées de Topologie Géométrique at the Institut Fourier in August 2025.
title An illustrated introduction to the coarse topology of lamplighters
topic Group Theory
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
20F65, 20F69
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18941