Coarse non-amenability and covers with small eigenvalues.

DOI10.1007/s00208-011-0759-8zbMath1270.20041arXiv1009.1966MaRDI QIDQ1938425

Erik Guentner, Goulnara N. Arzhantseva

Publication date: 4 February 2013

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1966

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphs; free groups; residually finite groups; amenable groups; Cheeger constants; closed Riemannian manifolds; eigenvalue of the Laplacian; filtrations by characteristic subgroups; filtrations of groups with subgroups of finite index; towers of finite sheeted regular covers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M10: Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology

20F65: Geometric group theory

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

20F34: Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)

43A07: Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups

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