Growth of Betti numbers

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00046-0MaRDI QIDQ1401006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bryan Clair, Kevin Whyte

Publication date 17 August 2003

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111120

zbMATH Keywords

ApproximationBetti numbersTowers of coverings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: Suppose X is any finite complex with vanishing L^2 Betti number. We prove upper bounds on the Betti numbers for regular coverings of X, sublinear in the order of covering. The bounds are sensitive to the Novikov-Shubin invariants of X, and are improved in the presence of a spectral gap.

Review text

The authors discuss growth rates of Betti numbers in a family of coverings of a compact cell complex \(X\), when the corresponding \(L^2\) Betti number of \(X\) is zero. The two key factors in estimating the Betti numbers of covers of \(X\) are: `: If \(\Gamma\) is a finitely generated group, with the word metric from some fixed generating set, then for any subgroup \(\Gamma'\) of \(\Gamma\) they define short\((\Gamma')\) to be the length of the shortest nonidentity element of \(\Gamma'\). 2. The behaviour of the \(L^2\) spectrum of an infinite regular covering \(\widetilde X\) with covering group \(\Gamma' (X= \widetilde X/ \Gamma)\). The authors suppose that \(b_q^{(2)}(\widetilde X; \Gamma)=0\) (or equivalently that there are no \(L^2\) harmonic \(q\)-cochains on \(\widetilde X)\) and \(X'=\widetilde X/ \Gamma'\) is any finite regular cover of \(X\). Then, the main results in the paper are: 1. (Spectral gap) If there is a gap near 0 in the \(L^2\) spectrum of \(\widetilde X\) in dimension \(q\), then there are \(C>0\) and \(M>0\) so that \(b_q(X')\leq C[\Gamma: \Gamma']/e^{Mshort(\Gamma')}\). 2. (Positive Novikov-Shubin invariant) If \(\widetilde X\) has Novikov-Shubin invariant \(\alpha(q) >0\), then for any \(\varepsilon>0\) there is a \(C_\varepsilon >0\) so that \(b_q(X')\leq C_\varepsilon [\Gamma: \Gamma']/(short(\Gamma'))^{a(q)-\varepsilon}\). 3. (General case) There is a constant \(C\) such that \(b_q(X')\leq C [\Gamma:\Gamma']/ \log(short (\Gamma^*))\).

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