The Dixmier problem, lamplighters and Burnside groups (Q1048161)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5655677
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5655677 |
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The Dixmier problem, lamplighters and Burnside groups (English)
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11 January 2010
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A problem of Dixmier (1950) reads as follows: is it true that every non-amenable group admits uniformly bounded representations that cannot be unitarised? Passing to extensions by abelian groups, the authors provide such representations. This gives a new characterization of amenability. The obtained result led the authors to a partial answer to a question of Pisier of whether free Burnside groups are unitarisable.
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unitarisable representation
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amenable group
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Burnside group
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