The large-scale geometry of locally compact solvable groups

This short survey deals with the large-scale geometry of solvable groups. Instead of giving a global overview of this wide subject, we chose to focus on three aspects which illustrate the broad diversity of methods employed in this subject. The first one has probabilistic and analytic flavors, the second is related to cohomological properties of unitary representations, while the third one deals with the Dehn function. To keep the exposition concrete, we discuss lots of examples, mostly among solvable linear groups.

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