Friday, 30 November 2007

gr.group theory - What kind group can be realized as a Isometry group of some space?

Every group is the full group of isometries of a connected, locally connected, complete metric space:



de Groot, J. "Groups represented by homeomorphism groups."
Math. Ann. 138 (1959) 80–102.
MR119193
doi:10.1007/BF01369667



Being a group of symmetries is the same thing as being a group.



You may also be interested to know that every group is the full automorphism group of a graph, not just a subgroup. References for this and various refinements are given at the wikipedia page for Frucht's theorem.

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