About the metric approximation of Higman's group

DOI10.1515/jgt.2011.102zbMath1251.20040arXiv1005.0823OpenAlexW2963622310WikidataQ61677682 ScholiaQ61677682MaRDI QIDQ2903546

Andreas Thom

Publication date: 10 August 2012

Published in: jgth (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0823

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groupsapproximation propertysofic groupsgroup von Neumann algebrasHigman groupLEF groupscommutator-contractive invariant length functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Ultraproducts in functional analysis (46M07) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25)

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