Some non-amenable groups.

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_56112_09zbMATH Open1264.20032arXiv1006.5389OpenAlexW2046728064MaRDI QIDQ433399FDOQ433399

A. Kar, Graham Niblo

Publication date: 13 July 2012

Published in: Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize a result of R. Thomas to establish the non-vanishing of the first l2-Betti number for a class of finitely generated groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5389

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zbMATH Keywords

Betti numberscohomologyfinitely generated groupsorbifoldsEuler characteristicsKazhdan property (T)deficiencies of presentationsnormal amenable subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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