Rational group ring elements with kernels having irrational dimension.

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDT029MaRDI QIDQ2872032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tim Austin

Publication date 14 January 2014

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2360

zbMATH Keywords

wreath productsspectral measuresMarkov operatorslamplighter groups\(L^2\)-Betti numbersAtiyah conjecturerational group rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Geometric group theory (20F65) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75)

Abstract: We prove that there are examples of finitely generated groups G together with group ring elements Q in �bQ G for which the von Neumann dimension dim_{LG}ker Q is irrational, so (in conjunction with other known results) answering a question of Atiyah.

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