Uniform local amenability (Q355375)

The authors introduce two new properties of a metric space: Uniform local amenability (UML) and its measure theoretic variant UML\(_\mu\). The uniform local amenability can be viewed as a localization of the amenability of metric spaces introduced by \textit{J. Block} and \textit{S. Weinberger} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 5, No. 4, 907--918 (1992; Zbl 0780.53031)]. The authors say that a bounded geometry metric space has property UML\(_\mu\) if, for all \(R,\varepsilon>0\), there exists \(S>0\) such that, for all probability measures \(\mu\) on \(X\), there exists a finite set \(E\subseteq X\) such that (1) \(\text{diam}(E)\leq S\) and (2) \( \mu(\partial_R E)<\varepsilon \mu(E)\), where \(\partial_R E\) is the set of points which are not in \(E\), but are in the \(R\)-neighborhood of \(E\). The authors study the interrelation of UML and UML\(_\mu\) with Yu's property~A, coarse embeddability into a Hilbert space, and with the metric sparsification property and the operator norm localization property introduced by \textit{X.-M. Chen} et al. [Adv. Math. 218, No. 5, 1496--1511 (2008; Zbl 1148.46040)] . In the final version, the authors mention that \textit{H. Sako} [J. Reine Angew. Math. (to appear) \url{doi:10.1515/crelle-2012-0065}, \url{arxiv:1203.5496}] proved that property~A and the operator norm localization property are equivalent for bounded geometry metric spaces. In one of the implications, the authors use the result of the reviewer [C.~R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 62, No. 4, 415--420 (2009; Zbl 1199.46057)] on expander-like structures in metric spaces which are not coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space. The paper is very interesting and well written, but at one point the authors use a slightly confusing notation: \(N_R\) is used both for the neighborhood of radius \(R\) of a set and for the upper estimate of the number of elements in a ball of radius \(R\).