Amenable covers and integral foliated simplicial volume (Q2169894)

A well-known theorem of Gromov, the proof of which has been worked out by \textit{N. V. Ivanov} [J. Sov. Math. 37, 1090--1115 (1987; Zbl 0612.55006)], says: If a space \(X\) admits an amenable covering, such that each point of \(X\) is contained in no more than \(n\) sets of the covering, then the canonical morphism from bounded to ordinary cohomology \(H_b^i(X)\to H^i(X)\) vanishes in degrees \(i\ge n\). (A covering is called amenable if for each set of the covering the image of its fundamental group in \(\pi_1X\) is amenable, e.g., if each set has amenable fundamental group.) As a consequence, a closed \(n\)-manifold \(M\), that allows such a covering, must have vanishing simplicial volume \(\Vert M\Vert=0\). The paper under review shows that for a closed, aspherical \(n\)-manifold \(M\), that allows such a covering, also the parametrized simplicial volume \(\vert M\vert^\alpha\) vanishes for every essentially free standard \(\pi_1M\)-space \(\alpha=(X,\mu)\). As a consequence, if \(M\) is a closed, aspherical \(n\)-manifold with residually finite fundamental group, that allows a covering as above, then \(\Vert M\Vert_{\mathbf Z}^\infty=\Vert M\Vert=0\).