# Isometries of nilpotent metric groups

@article{Kivioja2016IsometriesON,
title={Isometries of nilpotent metric groups},
author={Ville Kivioja and Enrico Le Donne},
journal={arXiv: Metric Geometry},
year={2016}
}
• Published 2016
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Metric Geometry
We consider Lie groups equipped with arbitrary distances. We only assume that the distance is left-invariant and induces the manifold topology. For brevity, we call such object metric Lie groups. Apart from Riemannian Lie groups, distinguished examples are sub-Riemannian Lie groups and, in particular, Carnot groups equipped with Carnot-Carath\'eodory distances. We study the regularity of isometries, i.e., distance-preserving homeomorphisms. Our first result is the analyticity of such maps… Expand
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