Group cohomology, harmonic functions and the first L^ 2-Betti number

DOI10.1023/A:1017974406074MaRDI QIDQ1362800zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alain Valette, Bachir Bekka

Publication date 2 March 1998

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1017974406074

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace operatorCayley graphharmonic functions\(L^ 2\)-cohomologycoboundary operatorcohomology spaceinfinite, finitely generated groupset of ends

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks (94C15) Continuous cohomology of Lie groups (22E41)

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