Geometric and analytic properties of groups

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-39702-1_4MaRDI QIDQ4465030zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Erik Guentner, Jerome Kaminker

Publication date 27 May 2004

Published in Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39702-1_4

zbMATH Keywords

exactnessfinitely presented groupGeometric propertynuclearityuniform embeddability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ext and (K)-homology (19K33) Abstract harmonic analysis (43A99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis (46-02) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80)

Review text

Let \(\Gamma\) denote a finitely presented group. By a geometric property of \(\Gamma\), the author means a property invariant under coarse equivalence. So, this entails treating \(\Gamma\) as a metric space. On the other hand, an analytic property of \(\Gamma\) is one which depends on the harmonic analysis, or unitary representation theory, of \(\Gamma\). Specifically, properties which are expressible in terms of the reduced \(C^*\)-algebra of \(\Gamma\), \(C^*_r(\Gamma)\), are considered. The geometric properties of \(\Gamma\) which are considered are: (1) uniform embeddability of \(\Gamma\) in a Hilbert space, (2) Property A of Yu, (3) amenability. Some analogous analytic properties of \(C^*_r(\Gamma)\) are (a) exactness, (b) approximation properties for \(C^*_r(\Gamma)\), (c) nuclearity. There are several relations between these concepts and one of the goals of this survey is to indicate what is known and what questions remain. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1032.46002].

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