Stability for product groups and property ( )

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2020.108729zbMATH Open1485.20004arXiv1909.00282OpenAlexW3046944811MaRDI QIDQ2197817FDOQ2197817

Adrian Ioana

Publication date: 1 September 2020

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the notion of permutation stability (or P-stability) for countable groups. Our main result provides a wide class of non-amenable product groups which are not P-stable. This class includes the product group $SigmaimesLambda$, whenever $Sigma$ admits a non-abelian free quotient and $Lambda$ admits an infinite cyclic quotient. In particular, we obtain that the groups $mathbb{F}_{m}imesmathbb{Z}^d$ and $mathbb{F}_{m}imesmathbb{F}_n$ are not P-stable, for any integers $m,ngeq2$ and $dgeq1$. This implies that P-stability is not closed under the direct product construction, which answers a question of Becker, Lubotzky and Thom. The proof of our main result relies on a construction of asymptotic homomorphisms from $SigmaimesLambda$ to finite symmetric groups starting from sequences of finite index subgroups in $Sigma$ and $Lambda$ with and without property $(au)$. Our method is sufficiently robust to show that the groups covered are not even flexibly P-stable, thus giving the first such non-amenable residually finite examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00282

zbMATH Keywords

sofic groupsspectral gapproperty taupermutation stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric groups (20B30) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Structure of general topological groups (22A05)

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