A dynamical approach to von Neumann dimension

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2010.26.967zbMATH Open1183.37012arXiv1006.1848OpenAlexW2964264075MaRDI QIDQ2379722FDOQ2379722

Authors: A. Gournay 

Publication date: 22 March 2010

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be an amenable group and V be a finite dimensional vector space. Gromov pointed out that the von Neumann dimension of linear subspaces of l^2(G;V) (with respect to G) can be obtained by looking at a growth factor for a dynamical (pseudo-)distance. This dynamical point of view (reminiscent of metric entropy) does not requires a Hilbertian structure. It is used in this article to associate to a $Gamma$-invariant linear subspaces Y of l^p(G;V) a real positive number dim_{l^p} Y (which is the von Neumann dimension when p=2). By analogy with von Neumann dimension, the properties of this quantity are explored to conclude that there can be no injective G-equivariant linear map of finite-type from l^p(G;V) -> l^p(G; V') if dim V > dim V'. A generalization of the Ornstein-Weiss lemma is developed along the way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1848

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zbMATH Keywords

mean dimensionvon Neumann dimensionOrnstein-Weiss lemmaAlexandrov widthclassification of \(\ell ^p\) spaces on discrete amenable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Dimension theory of smooth dynamical systems (37C45) (L^p)-spaces and other function spaces on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A15) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Spaces of measurable functions ((L^p)-spaces, Orlicz spaces, Köthe function spaces, Lorentz spaces, rearrangement invariant spaces, ideal spaces, etc.) (46E30) Approximation by arbitrary nonlinear expressions; widths and entropy (41A46) Dynamical systems methods for problems in mechanics (70G60)

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