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Quasisymmetric maps on the boundary of a negatively curved solvable Lie group

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We describe all the self quasisymmetric maps on the ideal boundary of a particular negatively curved solvable Lie group. As applications, we derive some rigidity properties for quasiisometries of the solvable Lie group.

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Xie, X. Quasisymmetric maps on the boundary of a negatively curved solvable Lie group. Math. Ann. 353, 727–746 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-011-0700-1

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