Eilenberg swindles and higher large scale homology of products of trees

DOI10.4171/GGD/400MaRDI QIDQ2357415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesca Diana, Piotr W. Nowak

Publication date 13 June 2017

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5219

zbMATH Keywords

coarse homologycohomology of groupsproducts of treesuniformly fine homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35)

Abstract: We show that uniformly finite homology of products of $n$ trees vanishes in all degrees except degree $n$, where it is infinite dimensional. Our method is geometric and applies to several large scale homology theories, including almost equivariant homology and controlled coarse homology. As an application we determine group homology with $el{l}_{infty}$-coefficients of lattices in products of trees. We also show a characterization of amenability in terms of 1-homology and construct aperiodic tilings using higher homology.

Review text

The uniformly fine homology \(H^{\mathrm{uf}}(X;R)\) was defined by \textit{J. Block} and \textit{S. Weinberger} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 5, No. 4, 907--918 (1992; Zbl 0780.53031)] and is a coarse homology theory for non-compact metric spaces, it is a quasi-isometric invariant and has many applications for coarse phenomena. The zero uniform homology has been used by Block and Weinberger [loc. cit.] to characterize amenability in spaces. On the other hand, let \(H^{(\infty )}_*\) denote the simplicial fine homology. The main theorem in this work is the following: Theorem 1. Let \(\Gamma_i, i=1, \ldots, n,\) be a family of bounded degree non-amenable graphs, let \(R\) be either \(\mathbb{Z}\) or \(\mathbb{R}\). Let \(X=\Gamma_1\times\dots \times \Gamma_n\) be their triangulated Cartesian product. Then, \(H^{(\infty )}_k (X;R)=H^{\mathrm{ae}}_k(X;R)=0\) for \(k=0,1,\ldots ,n-1\), where \(H^{\mathrm{\mathrm{ae}}}_*\) denotes \textit{A. Dranishnikov}'s almost equivariant homology [Geom. Topol. 15, No. 2, 1107--1124 (2011; Zbl 1220.53057)]. On the other hand, the authors prove that for a finite product of uniformly locally finite infinite trees, where vertices have degree at least 3, one has that their uniformly fine homology and simplicial fine homology coincide, thus giving the following theorem: Theorem 2. Let \(T_i\) be trees as before, \(i=1,\ldots ,n\) and let \(X=T_1\times\dots \times T_n\) be their Cartesian product. Then, \(H^{\mathrm{uf}}_n(X;R)\) is infinite dimensional and \(H^{\mathrm{uf}}_k(X;R)=0\) for \(k\not= n\), where \(R\) is as before.

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