Variations on a theme by Higman

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2016.10.004zbMATH Open1365.20033arXiv1604.05454OpenAlexW2963301692MaRDI QIDQ2360705FDOQ2360705

Authors: Nicolas Monod 

Publication date: 4 July 2017

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose elementary and explicit presentations of groups that have no amenable quotients and yet are SQ-universal. Examples include groups with a finite classifying space, no Kazhdan subgroups and no Haagerup quotients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05454

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zbMATH Keywords

Haagerup propertyHigman group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

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