The Dixmier problem, lamplighters and Burnside groups

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2009.06.029MaRDI QIDQ1048161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Monod, Narutaka Ozawa

Publication date 11 January 2010

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4585

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupBurnside groupunitarisable representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65)

Abstract: J. Dixmier asked in 1950 whether every non-amenable group admits uniformly bounded representations that cannot be unitarised. We provide such representations upon passing to extensions by abelian groups. This gives a new characterisation of amenability. Furthermore, we deduce that certain Burnside groups are non-unitarisable, answering a question raised by G. Pisier.

Review text

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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