A Svarc-Milnor lemma for monoids acting by isometric embeddings.

link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5498
Abstract

We continue our programme of extending key techniques from geometric group
theory to semigroup theory, by studying monoids acting by isometric embeddings
on spaces equipped with asymmetric, partially-defined distance functions. The
canonical example of such an action is a cancellative monoid acting by
translation on its Cayley graph. Our main result is an extension of the
Svarc-Milnor Lemma to this setting.