A numerical invariant for finitely generated groups via actions on graphs.
DOI10.7146/math.scand.a-12442zbMath0812.20020MaRDI QIDQ4274124
Publication date: 9 May 1995
Published in: MATHEMATICA SCANDINAVICA (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/167243
finitely generated groups; directed graph; von Neumann algebras; harmonic functions; von Neumann dimension; Betti number; regular representation; subgroup of finite index; amalgamated products of finite groups; square-summable functions
20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups
20F65: Geometric group theory
05C25: Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.)
46L10: General theory of von Neumann algebras
20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations
43A15: (L^p)-spaces and other function spaces on groups, semigroups, etc.
20E08: Groups acting on trees
43A60: Almost periodic functions on groups and semigroups and their generalizations (recurrent functions, distal functions, etc.); almost automorphic functions
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