Expanders and property A.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2012.12.37MaRDI QIDQ422082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ana Khukhro, Nick Wright

Publication date 16 May 2012

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6232

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilitycoarse Baum-Connes conjecturecoarse geometrycohomological descriptionsdiscrete bounded metric spacesexpander graphsexpandersgeneralised cohomologyproperty Auniform embeddings into Hilbert spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75) Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

Abstract: We give a cohomological characterisation of expander graphs, and use it to give a direct proof that expander graphs do not have Yu's property A.

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