Abstract
In this paper we prove quasi-isometric rigidity results concerning lattices in Sol and lamplighter groups. The paper builds in a substantial way on our earlier paper Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries I: spaces not quasi-isometric to Cayley graphs.
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