Every finitely generated group is weakly exact

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2011.08.017MaRDI QIDQ647635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ronald G. Douglas, Piotr W. Nowak

Publication date 24 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0313

zbMATH Keywords

bounded cohomologyexact groupHochschild cohomologyinvariant expectation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Normed modules and Banach modules, topological modules (if not placed in 13-XX or 16-XX) (46H25) Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We show that every finitely generated group admits weak analogues of an invariant expectation, whose existence characterizes exact groups. This fact has a number of applications. We show that Hopf $G$-modules are relatively injective, which implies that bounded cohomology groups with coefficients in all Hopf $G$-modules vanish in all positive degrees. We also prove a general fixed point theorem for actions of finitely generated groups on $el{l}_{infty}$-type spaces. Finally, we define the notion of weak exactness for certain Banach algebras.

Review text

In an earlier paper [J. Topol. Anal. 3, No. 1, 89--107 (2011; Zbl 1248.57002)] the authors introduced the notion of an invariant expectation, a map whose existence characterizes exact groups. By adjusting the space on which the map is defined one may weaken or strengthen this condition. The main result of the present paper is that a certain weakening of this condition holds for all finitely-generated groups. Despite its prevalence, this weak exactness still leads to useful consequences, for example that bounded cohomology groups with coefficients in weak-{*} Hopf \(G\)-modules vanish in all positive degrees. This, in turn, provides a counterexample to a conjecture in the earlier paper.

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