APPROXIMATING THE FIRST L2-BETTI NUMBER OF RESIDUALLY FINITE GROUPS

DOI10.1142/S1793525311000532zbMath1243.20039arXiv1011.4739MaRDI QIDQ3020557

Wolfgang Lück, Denis V. Osin

Publication date: 4 August 2011

Published in: Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4739

zbMATH Keywords

torsion groups; finitely generated residually finite groups; \(L^2\)-Betti numbers; approximation conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F65: Geometric group theory

46L85: Noncommutative topology

20E26: Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups

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