Semi-continuity of the first ^2-Betti number on the space of finitely generated groups.

DOI10.4171/CMH/67MaRDI QIDQ2497111zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mikaël Pichot

Publication date 1 August 2006

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/CMH/67

zbMATH Keywords

\(\ell^2\)-Betti numbersspace of finitely generated groupsspace of finitely generated marked groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Review text

Summary: To each finitely generated group is associated a sequence \((\beta_0,\beta_1,\beta_2,\dots)\) of non-negative real numbers, its \(\ell^2\)-Betti numbers. On the other hand, the set of finitely generated groups desingularizes into a usual topological space, the space MG of finitely generated marked groups. It is proved in this note that if a sequence \(\Gamma_n\in\text{MG}\) of marked groups converges to a group \(\Gamma\), then \(\overline\lim\,\beta_1(\Gamma_n)\leq\beta_1(\Gamma)\).

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